Table 3.
Classification of pulmonary nodules per nodule size in the test dataset using the curriculum learning-based and baseline models.
| AMC | SNUBH | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUC | Acc | Sen | Spe | PPV | NPV | AUC | Acc | Sen | Spe | PPV | NPV | ||
|
Nodule (<3 cm) |
Baseline | 81.1 | 78.4 | 78.4 | 82.8 | 99.7 | 5.6 | 53.3 | 59.7 | 60.1 | 46.4 | 97.7 | 2.9 |
|
Curriculum learning |
89.9 | 90.2 | 90.2 | 89.7 | 99.8 | 12.5 | 64.6 | 74.7 | 75.3 | 53.8 | 98.5 | 5.1 | |
|
Nodule (≥3 cm and <5 cm) |
Baseline | 82.1 | 80.6 | 80.4 | 83.9 | 99.0 | 17.1 | 71.2 | 64.5 | 63.3 | 79.1 | 97.2 | 15.6 |
|
Curriculum learning |
87.0 | 91.9 | 92.4 | 81.6 | 99.0 | 34.1 | 71.7 | 77.0 | 77.9 | 65.5 | 96.4 | 19.9 | |
|
Nodule (≥5 cm) |
Baseline | 81.5 | 79.8 | 79.6 | 83.3 | 99.2 | 12.9 | 72.8 | 65.8 | 64.2 | 81.4 | 97.1 | 19.1 |
|
Curriculum learning |
81.2 | 90.5 | 91.2 | 71.2 | 98.9 | 22.6 | 77.3 | 79.2 | 79.6 | 75.0 | 96.9 | 27.2 | |