Table 4.

Comparison of the thyroid nodule segmentation results for the different methods based on DICE value

Method	Joint-training CNN	Joint-training CNN without joint-training annotation	Faster R-CNN	YOLO
DICE	0.88 ± 0.07	0.76 ± 0.05	0.66 ± 0.11	0.41 ± 0.21