Table 6.

Comparison of different pooling approaches on the HEp-2 cells and DR datasets

Pooling method	HEp-2 Cells		DR
	MCA	p value	QK	p value
Max	$85.62\pm 0.44$	0.0000	$0.767\pm 0.007$	0.0004
Average	$\mathbf{87.50}\pm \mathbf{0.74}$	–	$0.773\pm 0.007$	0.0199
Mixed max-average	$86.12\pm 0.56$	0.0020	$0.774\pm 0.007$	0.0258
GM pooling	$86.30\pm 0.33$	0.0019	$\mathbf{0.782}\pm \mathbf{0.005}$	–

Here, pooling is applied to all the transition layers of the CNN