TABLE VI.

Mean And Standard Deviation Values of Evaluation Metrics From Testing Set Versus Normal Thyroid Gland Containing Nodules Classified According to Pathology Using the Multi-Prong Convolutional Neural Network (MPCNN) Algorithm and the Distance Regularized Level Set (DRLS) Algorithm

Metrics	Algorithm	Benign (n=98)	Malignant (n=32)	Indeterminate (n=18)
Dice coefficient	MPCNN	0.90±0.08	0.88±0.14	0.85±0.16
	DRLS	0.95±0.03	0.95±0.02	0.94±0.03
TPF	MPCNN	0.89±0.12	0.87±0.17	0.85±0.21
	DRLS	0.94±0.05	0.96±0.04	0.94±0.05
FPF ×(1e-6)	MPCNN	0.78±1.29	0.56±0.64	0.72±0.96
	DRLS	0.48±0.64	0.59±0.57	0.46±0.42

TPF = true positive fraction, FPF = false positive fraction, n = number of images