Research Article

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

Table 4

Precision and F1-score comparisons among VGG16, SPP-based VGGNet, and MSP-based VGGNet.

FoldMethodsPerformance evaluation (%)

1VGG1689.182.583.385.085.777.787.783.9
SPP-VGG93.084.593.790.494.387.790.490.8
MSP-VGG94.488.293.892.196.589.691.792.6

2VGG1693.273.286.084.288.770.389.282.9
SPP-VGG92.889.394.792.395.588.294.092.6
MSP-VGG94.188.695.992.996.289.794.393.5

3VGG1696.269.281.682.481.667.987.5079.7
SPP-VGG94.380.586.487.193.078.588.286.5
MSP-VGG98.686.390.491.796.585.791.691.3

4VGG1696.376.982.985.486.770.489.082.6
SPP-VGG92.591.391.891.993.286.393.991.1
MSP-VGG95.588.792.492.295.585.194.291.6

5VGG1698.061.980.680.283.862.784.677.6
SPP-VGG92.782.491.588.893.383.890.289.1
MSP-VGG95.484.993.791.393.986.993.191.3

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.