Research Article

MDU-Net: A Convolutional Network for Clavicle and Rib Segmentation from a Chest Radiograph

Table 2

Performance comparison of the single-task segmentation networks.

ā€‰EvaluationFCN-8s [30]Deeplabv3+ [32]U-Net [31]MDU_Net
MeanStdMeanStdMeanStdMeanStd

ClavicleDSC90.513.8790.284.9792.535.4293.782.21
Precision92.163.1091.594.1593.933.0994.533.17
Recall89.266.1489.478.0591.597.4593.033.53
Jaccard82.665.5682.287.5886.107.2188.293.98

Anterior ribsDSC78.414.7775.765.3779.595.2680.955.38
Precision83.110.0477.8210.1883.4310.483.1811.02
Recall75.747.8975.418.2778.378.1381.257.49
Jaccard64.496.2560.986.866.106.8868.097.2

Posterior ribsDSC85.392.6784.663.4487.482.8389.062.45
Precision87.593.9185.334.6489.564.1389.694.22
Recall83.544.384.284.9485.734.3288.673.62
Jaccard74.504.0173.405.1177.754.4480.283.98

AllDSC85.622.8184.243.0686.472.9688.382.94
Precision88.824.3486.25.189.894.5690.394.71
Recall83.035.4182.916.3983.665.4686.725.79
Jaccard74.864.2172.775.0876.164.5679.184.68