Research Article

Multilevel Strip Pooling-Based Convolutional Neural Network for the Classification of Carotid Plaque Echogenicity

Table 3

Sensitivity and specificity comparisons among VGG16, SPP-based VGGNet, and MSP-based VGGNet.

FoldMethodsPerformance evaluation (%)

1VGG1682.673.392.682.896.592.983.190.8
SPP-VGG95.791.187.491.497.692.594.995.0
MSP-VGG98.691.189.693.198.194.594.995.8

2VGG1684.667.592.881.698.091.282.390.5
SPP-VGG98.587.093.493.097.796.394.396.1
MSP-VGG98.590.992.894.198.195.895.796.6

3VGG1670.866.794.377.398.988.577.888.4
SPP-VGG91.776.590.186.197.992.886.592.4
MSP-VGG94.485.292.990.999.594.890.795.0

4VGG1678.864.996.079.999.092.977.389.7
SPP-VGG93.981.896.090.697.697.290.695.1
MSP-VGG95.581.896.091.198.696.391.395.4

5VGG1673.163.489.075.299.584.876.586.9
SPP-VGG94.085.489.089.597.692.891.794.0
MSP-VGG92.589.092.491.398.693.893.895.4

VGG16
SPP-VGG
MSP-VGG

SPP-VGG and MSP-VGG are short for SPP-based VGGNet and MSP-based VGGNet, respectively. The best results are highlighted in bold. The listed metrics were obtained on the test dataset.