MISeval: A Metric Library for Medical Image Segmentation Evaluation

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 25:294:33-37. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220391.

Abstract

Correct performance assessment is crucial for evaluating modern artificial intelligence algorithms in medicine like deep-learning based medical image segmentation models. However, there is no universal metric library in Python for standardized and reproducible evaluation. Thus, we propose our open-source publicly available Python package MISeval: a metric library for Medical Image Segmentation Evaluation. The implemented metrics can be intuitively used and easily integrated into any performance assessment pipeline. The package utilizes modern DevOps strategies to ensure functionality and stability. MISeval is available from PyPI (miseval) and GitHub: https://github.com/frankkramer-lab/miseval.

Keywords: Biomedical image segmentation; Evaluation; Medical Image Analysis; Open-source framework; Performance assessment; Reproducibility.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods