TABLE 3.

Statistical analysis (p-value) of the proposed AFE-Net compared with other CNN-based methods.

Methods	Dsc
AFENet-FCN (Long et al., 2015)	< 1E-4
AFENet-DeepLabV3 (Chen et al., 2017)	< 1E-4
AFENet-DANet (Fu et al., 2020)	< 1E-4
AFENet-GCN (Peng et al., 2017)	< 1E-4
AFENet-PSPNet (Zhao et al., 2017)	0.0006
AFENet-U-Net (Ronneberger et al., 2015)	< 1E-4
AFENet-Att-UNet (Oktay et al., 2018)	0.0004
AFENet-CE-Net (Gu et al., 2019)	0.0016
AFENet-CPFNet (Feng et al., 2020)	< 1E-4
AFENet-UNet++ (Zhou et al., 2018)	0.0055
AFENet-CS2Net (Mou et al., 2021)	0.0001
AFENet-HRSeNet (Wang et al., 2019)	< 1E-4
AFENet-UNet + DsSE + MsFF	0.0004
AFENet-TransUNet (Chen et al., 2017)	< 1E-4
AFENet-Baseline	0.0019