Application of Artificial Neural Network Models in Segmentation and Classification of Nodules in Breast Ultrasound Digital Images

Table 6

Performance of other studies.

	Our study		Yap  M. H. and Yap  C. H. [12]	Liao et al. [13]	Chang et al. [10]	Alvarenga et al. [11]
	Segmentation using SOM	Segmentation using active contour
Accuracy	0.924	0.924	0.833	0.866	0.910	0.888
Sensitivity	0.944	0.972	0.780	0.754	0.889	0.860
Specificity	0.903	0.857	0.871	0.951	0.925	0.942
Area under ROC curve	0.920	0.960	0.884	—	0.947	0.920