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. 2022 Oct 4;26(3):673–685. doi: 10.1007/s40477-022-00726-8

Table 3.

The performance of semantic segmentation models using original and despeckled thyroid US Images by DsF_FBiF and DsF_EPSF Filters

Experiment
(Image Type)
P.E.P mIoU (%) mIoU (B) (%) mIoU (M) (%) mDC (%) DC (B) (%) DC (M) (%) TPR (%) FNR (%) TNR (%) FPR (%)
Seg. Algo
Experiment 1 (OTTUS)

Seg

Net

78.4 ± 16.1 80.3 ± 15.0 77.4 ± 14.1 87.2 ± 06.4 87.3 ± 07.4 86.4 ± 06.1 85.2 ± 05.8 14.8 ± 03.8 87.6 ± 4.9 10.4 ± 3.4
UNet 80.9 ± 11.2 81.4 ± 09.2 80.6 ± 11.1 89.1 ± 05.4 88.1 ± 04.2 87.4 ± 05.3 86.9 ± 06.9 13.1 ± 03.7 89.9 ± 3.1 10.1 ± 2.9
Hybrid-UNet 83.1 ± 07.8 83.4 ± 08.7 82.2 ± 06.9 90.1 ± 02.9 91.4 ± 03.2 89.4 ± 0.02 88.2 ± 04.9 11.8 ± 02.8 90.8 ± 3.2 09.2 ± 2.3

Experiment 2

(DTTUS by DsF_FBiF Filter)

SegNet 79.4 ± 13.2 80.3 ± 11.1 79.1 ± 12.4 88.7 ± 05.8 89.4 ± 06.2 88.1 ± 04.8 87.6 ± 04.9 12.4 ± 03.1 88.2 ± 4.1 08.8 ± 2.9
UNet 82.1 ± 09.7 84.0 ± 07.1 82.8 ± 09.2 89.3 ± 05.1 89.9 ± 05.7 88.8 ± 04.3 87.9 ± 05.9 12.1 ± 03.8 89.1 ± 3.1 10.9 ± 2.5
Hybrid-UNet 85.2 ± 06.2 86.2 ± 05.8 84.4 ± 05.7 90.6 ± 02.8 90.7 ± 0.02 89.4 ± 0.03 89.7 ± 04.1 10.3 ± 02.7 90.8 ± 3.2 09.2 ± 2.1

Experiment 3

(DTTUS by DsF_EPSF Filter)

SegNet 80.4 ± 12.8 81.4 ± 11.7 79.3 ± 15.4 90.0 ± 05.1 90.4 ± 04.9 89.9 ± 05.2 89.1 ± 04.9 10.9 ± 03.0 90.4 ± 4.1 09.6 ± 3.1
UNet 83.2 ± 09.7 85.1 ± 08.5 83.6 ± 11.1 92.9 ± 03.9 93.1 ± 03.8 91.9 ± 04.1 92.3 ± 04.9 07.7 ± 02.8 93.2 ± 3.3 06.8 ± 2.9
Hybrid-UNet 86.6 ± 09.8 88.8 ± 8.7 85.6 ± 09.5 93.2 ± 03.1 93.9 ± 02.8 92.8 ± 03.2 90.5 ± 03.1 09.5 ± 02.6 94.9 ± 2.7 05.1 ± 2.0

Note - P.E.P. - performance evaluation parameters, OTTUS - Original Thyroid Tumor US Images, DTTUS - Despeckled Thyroid Tumor US Images, B - benign, M - malignant