Full protocol includes comparison of template to itself

The "Full" protocol contains match scores of 0.5, which comes from comparing each template to itself. For my work, I have removed these scores manually, but I think it would be better to modify the protocol so that it only contains match scores for DIFFERENT samples (i.e., not for a sample compared with itself). Below is an example of the EER results obtained for our 3 fingervein extractors (WLD, RLT and MC) with the Full protocol as it is VERSUS when the scores of 0.5 are removed:

WLD: 5.795% (current Full protocol) versus 9.545% (scores of 0.5 removed)

RLT: 14.545% (current Full protocol) versus 24.318% (scores of 0.5 removed)

MC: 2.477% (current Full protocol) versus 4.318% (scores of 0.5 removed)