Table 5.

Ablation study results for training MED-Net with different loss functions.

	Dice Coefficient
	Cross Entropy	Dice Loss	MSDC+TV
Background	0.91	0.92	0.92
Artifact	0.78	0.78	0.76
Meshwork	0.57	0.64	0.67
Nest	0.56	0.57	0.62
Ring	0.76	0.75	0.79
Aspecific	0.68	0.71	0.72
Average	0.74	0.75	0.77
	Sensitivity
	Cross Entropy	Dice Loss	MSDC+TV
Background	0.89	0.93	0.89
Artifact	0.78	0.74	0.81
Meshwork	0.50	0.71	0.67
Nest	0.51	0.44	0.50
Ring	0.76	0.71	0.79
Aspecific	0.88	0.76	0.77
Average	0.73	0.73	0.77
	Specificity
	Cross Entropy	Dice Loss	MSDC+TV
Background	0.99	0.98	0.99
Artifact	0.95	0.96	0.92
Meshwork	0.93	0.86	0.91
Nest	0.98	0.99	0.99
Ring	0.93	0.95	0.94
Aspecific	0.90	0.95	0.95
Average	0.94	0.94	0.94