US Patent 11315352 Calculating the precision of image annotations

A machine receives, for a given target in a given image, a plurality of annotations, each annotation indicating a range of pixels corresponding to the given target. The machine computes a number of pixels in an intersection of the plurality of annotations. The machine computes an average pixels on target (APOT) for the given target by computing, for each annotation, a number of pixels that corresponds to the given target and taking a mean of those numbers. The machine computes a precision value of the plurality of annotations as the number of pixels in the intersection divided by the APOT. The machine provides an output representing the precision value.