Table 3 Comparison of Dice scores for urinary system segmentation between the proposed modified U-Net model, U-net with various components, and 2D based models in state of the art with simple multi-class implementation.

From: Kidney, ureter, and urinary bladder segmentation based on non-contrast enhanced computed tomography images using modified U-Net

 

Avg

Kidney

Ureter

Urinary bladder

Total ureter

Proximal ureter

Middle ureter

Distal ureter

Proposed modified U-net

0.8623 (± 0.0289)

0.9613 (± 0.0044)

0.7225 (± 0.1584)

0.7121 (± 0.1286)

0.6558 (± 0.1228)

0.6085 (± 0.1235)

0.9032 (± 0.0579)

U-Net model

 Baseline

0.7835

0.8751

0.57

0.5875

0.5427

0.5515

0.9055

 With transposed convolution

0.8021

0.907

0.6012

0.6124

0.595

0.6004

0.8982

 With multi-segmentation decoder

0.815

0.9315

0.5998

0.6134

0.5885

0.598

0.9137

 With ROI extraction and slice windowing

0.831

0.9376

0.6309

0.6385

0.6163

0.6005

0.9243

Other 2D based models in state of the art

 UNet++ 

0.7964

0.914

0.5774

0.5888

0.5698

0.5589

0.898

 PraNet

0.8208

0.9392

0.6501

0.6762

0.6487

0.6087

0.8732

 nnU-Net

0.8332

0.9423

0.6573

0.6838

0.631

0.6163

0.8999

 Swin-UNet

0.8481

0.9488

0.6924

0.6974

0.6462

0.673

0.9031