Table 8 Supplementary ablation study focusing on the Jaccard Index (IoU)

From: CartiSurface: implicit surface reconstruction for anatomically-aware cartilage thickness mapping in knee MRI

Model variant

Jaccard Index (IoU) ↑

Full CartiSurface (ours)

0.835

w/o \({{\mathcal{L}}}_{{\rm{spacing}}}\)

0.786

w/o \({{\mathcal{L}}}_{{\rm{parallel}}}\)

0.770

w/o \({{\mathcal{L}}}_{{\rm{smooth}}}\)

0.802

  1. The results are consistent with other metrics, showing that the full model provides the best segmentation overlap and that each geometric loss component contributes to performance. Best result in bold.