Table 10 Comparison of backbones and strategies for model selection with early stop mechanisms on the testing sets in (a) the classification of aggressive and non-aggressive EC, (b) TMB prediction for the aggressive EC, and (c) TMB prediction for the non-aggressive EC

From: Deep learning for endometrial cancer subtyping and predicting tumor mutational burden from histopathological slides

Task

Metric

Backbone

Acc.

Sens.

Spec.

MeanSS

AUROC

(a) Classification of aggressive and non-aggressive EC

Cross-Entropy

ResNet50 Truncated

0.85

0.81

0.90

0.86

0.89

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.87

0.92

0.80

0.86

0.92

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.86

0.81

0.91

0.86

0.91

 

MeanSS

ResNet50 Truncated

0.87

0.90

0.83

0.86

0.91

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.89

0.91

0.90

0.88

0.91

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.87

0.87

0.87

0.87

0.91

 

F1-score

ResNet50 Truncated

0.89

0.93

0.84

0.89

0.97

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.84

0.80

0.89

0.84

0.86

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.86

0.83

0.90

0.87

0.93

(b) TMB prediction for aggressive ECs

Cross-Entropy

ResNet50 Truncated

0.67

0.78

0.61

0.69

0.69

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.71

0.75

0.68

0.71

0.78

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.73

0.72

0.73

0.73

0.78

 

MeanSS

ResNet50 Truncated

0.66

0.67

0.66

0.66

0.67

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.71

0.75

0.68

0.71

0.78

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.66

0.86

0.54

0.70

0.73

 

F1-score

ResNet50 Truncated

0.64

0.75

0.57

0.66

0.74

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.70

0.71

0.70

0.70

0.70

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.66

0.85

0.55

0.70

0.80

(c) TMB prediction for non-aggressive ECs

Cross-Entropy

ResNet50 Truncated

0.61

0.32

0.76

0.54

0.49

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.67

0.09

0.98

0.53

0.58

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.67

0.10

0.95

0.52

0.57

 

MeanSS

ResNet50 Truncated

0.64

0.57

0.67

0.62

0.66

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.72

0.33

0.91

0.62

0.66

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.66

0.46

0.76

0.61

0.62

 

F1-score

ResNet50 Truncated

0.64

0.57

0.67

0.62

0.69

  

ResNet101 Truncated

0.69

0.38

0.84

0.61

0.65

  

ResNet152 Truncated

0.66

0.76

0.61

0.68

0.70

  1. The bold case highlights the recommended setup of the proposed framework.