Table 1 Comparison results of combination of batch normalization (BN) and dropout rate. BN only showed the best accuracy.

From: Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Deep Learning Classifier: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study

Regularization Layer

Kernel size

Activation function

Optimizer

Number of Epochs

Accuracy

BN

2 × 2

ReLUa

Adamb

46

93.7%

BN and Dropout (0.1)c

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

28

74.6%

BN and Dropout (0.2)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

165

92.7%

BN and Dropout (0.3)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

48

86.6%

BN and Dropout (0.4)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

46

85.0%

BN and Dropout (0.5)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

55

73.9%

Dropout (0.1)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

59

86.6%

Dropout (0.2)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

116

88.2%

Dropout (0.3)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

96

87.7%

Dropout (0.4)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

112

87.9%

Dropout (0.5)

2 × 2

ReLU

Adam

28

72.1%

  1. aReLU: rectified linear unit.
  2. bAdam: Adam optimizer.
  3. cDropout (0.1) indicates a dropout rate of 0.1.