CatSIM: A Categorical Image Similarity Metric

arXiv:2004.09073v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce CatSIM, a new similarity metric for binary and multinary two- and three-dimensional images and volumes. CatSIM uses a structural similarity image quality paradigm and is robust to small perturbations in location so that structures in similar, but not entirely overlapping, image or volumetric regions are rated higher than by simple matching. The metric can also compare arbitrary regions inside images and volumes. CatSIM is evaluated on artificial data sets, validated by comparing with human perception in two separate image quality assessment surveys, and illustrated on two datasets. The publicly available R package exttt{catsim} implements the methodology.

Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-25