Research Article

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

Table 3

Comparison of DSC values of the improved networks.

DSC (%)ReencodedMultitaskSaved four modelsClaviclesAnterior ribsPosterior ribsAll

U-Net [31]92.5379.5987.4886.47
MDU_Net (nonpretrained)92.9380.1488.0787.13
Ours (basis)93.4380.6888.6288.07
MDU_Net (reencoded)93.6480.7588.7488.16
MDU_Net (MDU-Net)93.7180.8988.9988.21
MDU_Net (MDU-Net)93.7880.9589.0688.38