diff --git a/pycrostates/cluster/_base.py b/pycrostates/cluster/_base.py
index b8307113..4ed3613d 100644
--- a/pycrostates/cluster/_base.py
+++ b/pycrostates/cluster/_base.py
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ def _predict_raw(
 
                 data_ = data[:, onset:end]
                 segment = _BaseCluster._segment(
-                    data_, cluster_centers_, factor, tol, half_window_size
+                    data_, cluster_centers_, self._ignore_polarity, factor, tol, half_window_size
                 )
                 if reject_edges:
                     segment = _BaseCluster._reject_edge_segments(segment)
@@ -860,14 +860,14 @@ def _predict_raw(
 
         else:
             segmentation = _BaseCluster._segment(
-                data, cluster_centers_, factor, tol, half_window_size
+                data, cluster_centers_, self._ignore_polarity, factor, tol, half_window_size
             )
             if reject_edges:
                 segmentation = _BaseCluster._reject_edge_segments(segmentation)
 
         if 0 < min_segment_length:
             segmentation = _BaseCluster._reject_short_segments(
-                segmentation, data, min_segment_length
+                segmentation, data, min_segment_length, self._ignore_polarity
             )
 
         # Provide properties to copy the arrays
@@ -906,12 +906,12 @@ def _predict_epochs(
         segments = []
         for epoch_data in data:
             segment = _BaseCluster._segment(
-                epoch_data, cluster_centers_, factor, tol, half_window_size
+                epoch_data, cluster_centers_, self._ignore_polarity, factor, tol, half_window_size
             )
 
             if 0 < min_segment_length:
                 segment = _BaseCluster._reject_short_segments(
-                    segment, epoch_data, min_segment_length
+                    segment, epoch_data, min_segment_length, self._ignore_polarity
                 )
             if reject_edges:
                 segment = _BaseCluster._reject_edge_segments(segment)
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ def _predict_epochs(
     def _segment(
         data: NDArray[float],
         states: NDArray[float],
+        ignore_polarity: bool,
         factor: int,
         tol: Union[int, float],
         half_window_size: int,
@@ -945,11 +946,12 @@ def _segment(
         states -= np.mean(states, axis=1)[:, np.newaxis]
         states /= np.std(states, axis=1)[:, np.newaxis]
 
+        _correlation(data, states, ignore_polarity=ignore_polarity)
         labels = np.argmax(np.abs(np.dot(states, data)), axis=0)
 
         if factor != 0:
             labels = _BaseCluster._smooth_segmentation(
-                data, states, labels, factor, tol, half_window_size
+                data, states, labels, ignore_polarity, factor, tol, half_window_size
             )
 
         return labels
@@ -958,6 +960,7 @@ def _segment(
     def _smooth_segmentation(
         data: NDArray[float],
         states: NDArray[float],
+        ignore_polarity: bool,
         labels: NDArray[int],
         factor: int,
         tol: Union[int, float],
@@ -976,6 +979,7 @@ def _smooth_segmentation(
                vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 658-665, July 1995,
                https://doi.org/10.1109/10.391164.
         """
+        # TODO: ignore_polarity
         Ne, Nt = data.shape
         Nu = states.shape[0]
         Vvar = np.sum(data * data, axis=0)
@@ -1013,6 +1017,7 @@ def _reject_short_segments(
         segmentation: NDArray[int],
         data: NDArray[float],
         min_segment_length: int,
+        ignore_polarity: bool
     ) -> NDArray[int]:
         """Reject segments that are too short.
 
@@ -1042,13 +1047,13 @@ def _reject_short_segments(
                     # compute correlation left/right side
                     left_corr = np.abs(
                         _correlation(
-                            data[:, left - 1], data[:, left], ignore_polarity=True
-                        )
+                            data[:, left - 1].reshape(-1, 1), data[:, left].reshape(-1, 1), ignore_polarity=True
+                        )[0, 0]
                     )
                     right_corr = np.abs(
                         _correlation(
                             data[:, right], data[:, right + 1], ignore_polarity=True
-                        )
+                        )[0, 0]
                     )
 
                     if np.abs(right_corr - left_corr) <= 1e-8:
diff --git a/pycrostates/metrics/davies_bouldin.py b/pycrostates/metrics/davies_bouldin.py
index 6859d3cb..c784e718 100644
--- a/pycrostates/metrics/davies_bouldin.py
+++ b/pycrostates/metrics/davies_bouldin.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def _davies_bouldin_score(X, labels, ignore_polarity):
     # Calculate the centroids of the clusters
     centroids = np.array([np.mean(X[labels == i], axis=0) for i in range(num_clusters)])
 
-    # Calculate pairwise distances between centroids using custom distance function
+    # Calculate pairwise distances between centroids
     centroid_distances = _distance(centroids, ignore_polarity=ignore_polarity)
 
     # Initialize array to hold scatter values for each cluster