Table 2.
Area under the receiver operating characteristic curves and the accuracy of the DL Models and TNM staging system.
| Datasets | Models | AUC | Accuracy | |||||||
| Intratumour | Intra-Peritumour | Intratumour | Intra-Peritumour | |||||||
| NPC-CMLN | Efficientnet-b0 | - | 0.76 | - | 0.81 | - | 74.40 | - | 73.28 | - |
| - | Inception-resnet-v2 | - | 0.78 | - | 0.78 | - | 76.04 | - | 74.78 | - |
| - | Resnet50 | - | 0.78 | - | 0.81 | - | 72.27 | - | 72.95 | - |
| - | Xception | - | 0.77 | - | 0.89 | - | 76.68 | - | 82.25 | - |
| - | - | Average | - | 0.77 | - | 0.82 | - | 74.85 | - | 75.82 |
| NPC | Efficientnet-b0 | - | 0.74 | - | 0.74 | - | 69.08 | - | 75.06 | - |
| - | Inception-resnet-v2 | - | 0.70 | - | 0.76 | - | 71.20 | - | 73.62 | - |
| - | Resnet50 | - | 0.74 | - | 0.76 | - | 71.20 | - | 72.95 | - |
| - | Xception | - | 0.76 | - | 0.84 | - | 66.11 | - | 79.25 | - |
| - | - | Average | 0.74 | - | 0.78 | - | 69.40 | - | 75.22 | |
| CMLN | Efficientnet-b0 | - | 0.81 | - | 0.88 | - | 76.81 | - | 79.58 | - |
| - | Inception-resnet-v2 | - | 0.77 | - | 0.86 | - | 72.96 | - | 80.24 | - |
| - | Resnet50 | - | 0.81 | - | 0.87 | - | 76.52 | - | 79.50 | - |
| - | Xception | - | 0.85 | - | 0.91 | - | 73.35 | - | 82.25 | - |
| - | - | Average | - | 0.81 | - | 0.88 | - | 74.89 | - | 80.39 |
| Max tumour | Efficientnet-b0 | - | 0.73 | - | 0.76 | - | 67.42 | - | 75.38 | - |
| - | Inception-resnet-v2 | - | 0.68 | - | 0.79 | - | 64.63 | - | 71.65 | - |
| - | Resnet50 | - | 0.70 | - | 0.80 | - | 71.20 | - | 72.97 | - |
| - | Xception | - | 0.77 | - | 0.81 | - | 70.56 | - | 76.50 | - |
| - | - | Average | - | 0.72 | - | 0.79 | - | 68.45 | - | 74.13 |
| TNM | - | - | 0.67 | 70.11 | ||||||