Table 6 Evaluation of the proposed data augmentation method’s efficacy through a two-step 10-fold cross-validation approach.

From: COVID-rate: an automated framework for segmentation of COVID-19 lesions from chest CT images

Training set

Number of synthetic images

DSC

SPC

SEN

MAE

Ave ± std

Ave ± std

Ave ± std

Ave ± std

Existing training set

–

\(0.7624 \pm 0.02\)

\(0.9944 \pm 0.002\)

\(0.8342 \pm 0.06\)

\(0.0079 \pm 0.001\)

Augmented training set

\(0.5 \times N\)

\(0.7696 \pm 0.02\)

\(0.9944 \pm 0.001\)

\(0.8573 \pm 0.04\)

\(0.0077 \pm 0.001\)

\(1 \times N\)

\(0.782 \pm 0.01\)

\(0.9948 \pm 0.001\)

\(0.8614 \pm 0.02\)

\(0.0073 \pm 0.001\)

\(1.5 \times N\)

\(0.7604 \pm 0.02\)

\(0.9944 \pm 0.001\)

\(0.8393 \pm 0.05\)

\(0.0079 \pm 0.001\)

\(2 \times N\)

\(0.752 \pm 0.05\)

\(0.9953 \pm 0.001\)

\(0.79 \pm 0.1\)

\(0.0077 \pm 0.001\)