Table 3 Ablation study of the proposed FKD-CSS model on the internal dataset cross-validation

From: Advanced and interpretable corneal staining assessment through fine grained knowledge distillation

ROI extraction

CPMB

Knowledge distillation

Pearson

AUC

   

0.828

0.803

  

0.865

0.848

 

0.889

0.871

 

0.883

0.861

0.898

0.881

  1. The first row represents the baseline model (regression ResNet50). All p-value of Pearson test are statistically significant (p-value < 0.001).
  2. FKD fine-grained knowledge distillation, CSS corneal staining score, ROI region of interest, AUC area under the curve, CPMB CSS prototype memory bank.