Table 4 Effect of different augmentation schemes employed in this study. The models were first trained and tested without using train-time augmentations, in next experiments different combinations were used to assess the effect of image augmentations on the performance of proposed technique.

From: Melanoma segmentation using deep learning with test-time augmentations and conditional random fields

Augmentations

Model

Jaccard index

No augmentations

UNet

82.34

ResUNet

79.22

ResUNet++

82.87

Rotation, vertical, and horizontal flip

UNet

82.25

ResUNet

79.28

ResUNet++

83.01

Rotation, vertical,horizontal flip, hue saturation value, RGB shift random brightness, and random contrast

UNet

83.39

ResUNet

80.35

ResUNet++

83.44

Rotation, vertical,horizontal flip, grayscale hue saturation value, RGB shift, random brightness random contrast, motion blur, and random gamma

UNet

82.72

ResUNet

79.81

ResUNet++

83.10