Table 7 Statistical comparison of CLCD-Block vs. existing models.

From: Blockchain enabled collective and combined deep learning framework for COVID19 diagnosis

Comparison model

p-value (Wilcoxon Test)

Significance (p < 0.05)

Implication

EfficientNetB425

\(2.38 \times 10^{-9}\)

Significant

CLCD-Block significantly outperforms in all metrics

Deep CNN31

\(1.647 \times 10^{-8}\)

Significant

Consistently better results across datasets

Blockchain-based FL38

\(7.372 \times 10^{-8}\)

Significant

Superior robustness and diagnostic precision

XGBoost26

\(1.4497 \times 10^{-7}\)

Significant

Outperforms especially in recall and specificity

CAP-CNN41

\(1.54972 \times 10^{-6}\)

Significant

More generalizable and accurate detection

LSTM + Blockchain14

\(2.000163 \times 10^{-5}\)

Significant

Better recall and overall balance in performance

Bi-LSTM + Blockchain33

\(1.42 \times 10^{-4}\)

Significant

Marginal but significant improvement in F1 and accuracy