Table 3.

Ablation study of the CariesNet segmentation performance (DSC) on three dental caries types

Model	Deep caries	Moderate caries	Shallow caries	Average
Backbone	0.860	0.653	0.765	0.812
+ Partial encoder	0.892	0.642	0.801	0.870
+ FSAA	0.947	0.673	0.916	0.919
+ BCE/Dice loss	0.955	0.687	0.924	0.921
+ Deep supervision	0.971	0.694	0.939	0.936

Bold values indicate the best results