A reference free approach for the comparative evaluation of eight segmentation methods for the estimation of the left ventricular ejection fraction in cardiac MRI.

International audience; Objective evaluation and comparison of segmentation algorithms for medical imaging is still a challenging issue. The most frequently used evaluation method consists in comparing the segmentation with a manual delineation. Since obtaining such manual segmentation can be tedious, we proposed a method based on the "extended Regression Without Truth" approach (eRWT)(1). This approach is applied to the comparative evaluation of 8 segmentation algorithms with different degrees of automation from the estimated left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).