daccuracy 2021.17

Detection and Segmentation Accuracy Measures

Brief Description

DAccuracy (Detection Accuracy) allows to compute

• some accuracy measures

• on an N-dimensional detection or segmentation image

• when the ground-truth is available as a CSV file, an image, or a Numpy file.

It works in 3 contexts:

• one-to-one: single ground-truth, single detection image;

• one-to-many: unique ground-truth, several detection images (typically obtained by various methods);

• many-to-many: set of “(ground-truth, detection image)” pairs.

Note

With 8-bit image formats, ground-truth and detection cannot contain more than 255 objects. If they do, they could be saved using higher-depth formats. However, it is recommended to save them in NPY or NPZ Numpy formats instead. Note that using Numpy arrays does not remove the limit on the number of objects, but with the uint64 dtype, the limit goes up to close to 2e19 objects. See a note below as to why ground-truth and detection are requested to be labeled (which raises this issue), as opposed to binary (which a priori would not).

Example console output (accuracy measures can also be written to a CSV file):

        Ground truth = ground-truth.csv
           Detection = detection.png
     N ground truths = 55
        N detections = 47
       True_positive = 43
      False_positive = 4
      False_negative = 12
           Precision = 0.9148936170212766
              Recall = 0.7818181818181819
            F1_score = 0.8431372549019609
         Froc_sample = (4, 0.7818181818181819)
Check_tp_fn_equal_gt = 55
Check_tp_fp_equal_dn = 47

Installation

The DAccuracy project is published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) at: https://pypi.org/project/daccuracy. It requires version 3.8, or newer, of the interpreter. It should be installable from Python distribution platforms or Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Otherwise, it can be installed from a command-line console:

• For all users, after acquiring administrative rights:

  • First installation: pip install daccuracy

  • Installation update: pip install --upgrade daccuracy

• For the current user (no administrative rights required):

  • First installation: pip install --user daccuracy

  • Installation update: pip install --user --upgrade daccuracy

Documentation

After installation, the daccuracy command should be available from a command-line console. The usage help is obtained with daccuracy --help (see output below).

The ground-truth can be specified through a CSV file, a labeled image, or a labeled Numpy array. The detection can be specified through a labeled image or a labeled Numpy array. A labeled image or Numpy array must have the background labeled with zero, with the objects labeled consecutively from 1.

Note

The input images are requested to be labeled (as opposed to binary: zero for the background and 1 for any of the objects) in order to be able to deal with tangent objects. With a binary image, there is no way to distinguish a unique object from a set of tangent objects.

In CSV format, the ground-truth must be specified as one row per object where n columns (the first n ones by default) correspond to the row, column, and remaining n-2 coordinates of the object center. Note that these coordinates can have floating-point values (as opposed to being restricted to integers). See the usage help below for details.

Example CSV:

1.2, 2.3
3.4, 4.5

This specifies two ground-truth object centers in dimension 2, the first one being at row 1.2 and column 2.3. Alternatively, the center coordinates can be passed in x/y coordinate system. See the usage help below for details.

The following accuracy measures are computed:

• Number of ground-truth objects

• Number of detected objects

• Number of true positives, false positives, and false negatives

• Precision, recall, and F1 score

• Free-response Receiver Operating Characteristic (FROC) curve sample: named froc_sample and corresponding to the tuple (false positives, true positive rate)

• Values for measure correctness checking: check_tp_fn_equal_gt (true_positives + false_negatives ?=? ground-truths) and check_tp_fp_equal_dn (true_positives + false_positives ?=? detections)

Additionally, if the ground-truth has been passed as an image or a Numpy array, the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum of the following measures are also computed:

• Ground-truth/detection overlap (as a percentage with respect to the smaller region among ground-truth and detection)

• Ground-truth/detection Jaccard index

• Pixel-wise precision, recall, and F1 score

Usage Help:

usage: daccuracy [-h] --gt ground_truth --dn detection [--shifts Dn_shift Dn_shift] [-e] [-t TOLERANCE] [-f {csv,nev}]
                 [-o Output file] [-s] [--no-usage-notice]

3 modes:
    - one-to-one: one ground-truth (csv, image, or Numpy array) vs. one detection (image or Numpy array)
    - one-to-many: one ground-truth vs. several detections (folder of detections)
    - many-to-many: several ground-truths (folder of ground-truths) vs. corresponding detections (folder of detections)

In many-to-many mode, each detection file must have a counterpart ground-truth file with the same name, but not
necessarily the same extension.

With 8-bit image formats, ground-truth and detection cannot contain more than 255 objects. If they do, they could be
saved using higher-depth formats. However, it is recommended to save them in NPY or NPZ Numpy formats instead.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --gt ground_truth     Ground-truth CSV file of centers or labeled image or labeled Numpy array, or ground-truth folder;
                        If CSV, --rAcB (or --xAyB) can be passed additionally to indicate that columns A and B contain
                        the centers' rows and cols, respectively (or x's and y's in x/y mode). Columns must be specified
                        as (possibly sequences of) uppercase letters, as is usual in spreadsheet applications. For
                        ground-truths of dimension "n" higher than 2, the symbol "+" must be used for the remaining
                        "n-2" dimensions. For example, --rAcB+C+D in dimension 4.
  --dn detection        Detection labeled image or labeled Numpy array, or detection folder.
  --shifts Dn_shift [Dn_shift ...]
                        Vertical (row), horizontal (col), and higher dimension shifts to apply to detection. Default:
                        all zeroes.
  -e, --exclude-border  If present, this option instructs to discard objects touching image border, both in ground-truth
                        and detection.
  -t TOLERANCE, --tol TOLERANCE, --tolerance TOLERANCE
                        Max ground-truth-to-detection distance to count as a hit (meant to be used when ground-truth is
                        a CSV file of centers). Default: zero.
  -f {csv,nev}, --format {csv,nev}
                        nev: one "Name = Value"-row per measure; csv: one CSV-row per ground-truth/detection pairs.
                        Default: "nev".
  -o Output file        CSV file to store the computed measures or "-" for console output. Default: console output.
  -s, --show-image      If present, this option instructs to show an image superimposing ground-truth onto detection.
                        It is actually done only for 2-dimensional images.
  --no-usage-notice     Silences usage notice about maximum number of objects.

Thanks

The project is developed with PyCharm Community.

The development relies on several open-source packages (see install_requires in setup.py).

The code is formatted by Black, The Uncompromising Code Formatter.

The imports are ordered by isort… your imports, so you don’t have to.