Research Article

Fully Automated Segmentation of Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis Using Convolutional Neural Network

Table 2

Comparisons of segmentation performance between the proposed CNN model and the other models.

AlgorithmDSCPrecisionRecall
Mean ± SDRangeMean ± SDRangeMean ± SDRange

Original
U-Net [21]
0.66±0.15
(p < 0.001)
0~0.840.71±0.170.05~0.880.65±0.170.04~0.92
Segnet [27]0.55±0.20
(p < 0.001 )
0.01~0.810.64±0.250.01~0.930.51±0.190.02~0.89
GCN [28]0.57±0.22
(p < 0.001 )
0.02~0.830.77±0.280~0.920.48±0.220.02~0.78
Proposed method0.74±0.170~0.920.75±0.160~0.880.72±0.150~0.99

Notes: DSC, dice similarity coefficient. The p values are obtained by using two-sided paired Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.