Table 3 Performance analysis of the developed and existing segmentation CNNs (trained from scratch).

From: COVID-19 infection analysis framework using novel boosted CNNs and radiological images

Model

Region

DSC

Acc

IoU

BF

Global-Acc

Mean-Acc

Mean-IoU

Weighted-IoU

Mean-BF

Ablation study of the proposed segmentation CNNs

Proposed SA-CB-BRSeg

Infected

96.40

99.21

98.85

99.09

99.51

99.49

98.98

99.09

98.32

Background

99.02

99.72

99.31

97.45

Proposed CB-BRSeg

Infected

95.96

99.01

98.43

98.87

99.25

99.17

98.69

98.80

98.03

Background

98.90

99.48

99.09

97.33

Proposed SA-BRSeg

Infected

95.61

98.83

98.35

98.47

98.99

98.97

98.46

98.57

97.42

Background

98.40

99.38

98.85

96.73

Comparative studies with the existing CNNs

Deeplabv3

Infected

95.00

98.48

97.59

97.53

99.03

98.91

98.14

98.33

97.08

Background

98.30

99.33

98.67

96.39

nnSAM41

Infected

94.85

98.33

97.45

97.39

98.93

98.81

98.04

98.23

96.88

Background

98.27

99.30

98.64

96.36

U-SegNet

Infected

94.65

98.25

97.01

97.02

98.82

98.73

97.52

97.68

96.52

Background

98.01

99.16

98.10

95.22

nnUNet

Infected

94.63

98.20

96.09

96.98

98.80

98.69

97.49

97.65

96.49

Background

98.27

99.18

98.12

95.27

SegNet

Infected

94.30

98.97

96.56

96.73

98.72

98.71

97.18

97.32

96.48

Background

97.90

98.45

97.79

95.22

U-Net

Infected

94.00

98.61

95.98

96.91

98.40

98.44

96.70

96.87

95.49

Background

97.70

98.28

97.42

94.07

VGG-16

Infected

91.00

91.38

88.91

89.37

95.59

94.81

91.05

91.53

83.66

Background

95.00

98.25

93.18

77.95

FCN-8

Infected

90.70

90.92

89.11

87.74

95.32

94.55

90.63

90.20

82.43

Background

94.00

98.18

92.15

77.11

Comparative studies with reported segmentation techniques

VB-Net48

Infected

91.00

–

–

––

–

–

–

–

–

Weakly Sup 50

Infected

90.00

–

––

–

–

–

–

–

–

MTL51

Infected

88.00

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

DCN28

Infected

83.50

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

 

U-Net-CA30

Infected

83.10

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Inf-Net52

Infected

68.20

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

  1. Gl-Acc, Mn-Acc. represents global and mean accuracy where Mn-IoU and Wt-IoU denote means and weighted IoU.