What are dimensions (or methods) in your paper?

[lucasSaavedra123]

Hello!

I am a undergraduate student and I would like to know what you mean when you talk about "dimensions" when you talk about Jaccard Index and localization error in your paper.

DECODE achieves high accuracy for a wide range of simulated data.Performance metrics. The quality of SMLM data analysis is commonly quantified by two factors: first, the detection accuracy quantifies the fraction of emitters that are detected. The metric we use here is the Jaccard Index (JI)7, that sets the true positives (TP) in relation to the false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN), JI = TP/(TP + FN +FP). The second factor is the localization error, that is how close the measured coordinates are to the true coordinates, measured here as the root mean squared error (r.m.s.e.) averaged over the dimensions (Methods). We matched the detected emit-ters to the ground-truth emitters in three dimensions with a lateral threshold of 250 nm and an axial threshold of 500 nm.

Maybe you talk about image dimensions but I would to really know what you mean.

Thank You Very Much!

PD: Thank you for answer my questions. The answers are very helpful.

[Haydnspass]

Dimensions are the physical dimensions, so for 2D divided by 2, for 3D 3.
This is equation (13) in the paper :)

[lucasSaavedra123]

I didn't read that equation. Thank You!