Table 11.

Effect of stochastic pooling: convolution is applied for downsampling transition layers except in the first one, where average pooling is used

Global pooling layer	HEp-2 cells
	MCA	p value
Stochastic pooling [142]	$87.52\pm 0.48$	0.0200
S3 pooling [143]	$86.81\pm 0.61$	0.0003
Max pooling dropout [132]	$87.37\pm 0.28$	0.0009
Average pooling dropout [132]	$\mathbf{88.14}\pm \mathbf{0.38}$	–
Global average pooling with no stochasticity/dropout	$\mathbf{88.02}\pm \mathbf{0.19}$	0.4585

The top scores are highlighed in bold