Table 2 Comparison of image quantification accuracies of 92 whole lung HRCT images between the CNNs with and without Perlin noise and the radiologists.

From: A Perlin Noise-Based Augmentation Strategy for Deep Learning with Small Data Samples of HRCT Images

DILD class

Inter-radiologist agreement(%)

Radiologist 1

Radiologist 2

CNN-P (%)

CNN-C (%)

P-value

CNN-P (%)

CNN-C (%)

P-value

Normal

62.7–92.2

40.2

36.1

<0.001

47.6

42.9

<0.001

GGO

15.7–67.5

38.9

33.8

<0.001

29.4

23.0

<0.001

Consolidation

52.3–60.4

48.6

38.5

<0.001

59.1

48.2

<0.001

RO

45.7–56.0

67.3

62.2

<0.001

67.8

61.5

<0.001

Emphysema

18.2–70.0

71.0

57.2

0.005

37.2

31.0

0.69

Honeycombing

39.5–82.2

63.7

71.6

<0.001

57.7

67.6

<0.001

Mean

45.3–65.1

55.0

49.9

<0.001

49.8

45.7

<0.001