Table 3 Quantitative evaluation results depending on architectures.

From: Dual-encoder architecture for metal artifact reduction for kV-cone-beam CT images in head and neck cancer radiotherapy

No. of encoders

Encoders

Feature fusion method

Evaluation metrics

Encoder 1

Encoder 2

PSNR

MSE

SSIM

PCC

Single-encoder

UNet

N/A

N/A

41.003026

0.000107

0.991796

0.992719

Fusion Net

N/A

N/A

39.921392

0.000142

0.990347

0.991159

UNet/L

N/A

N/A

39.301266

0.000147

0.990335

0.990836

FusionNet/L

N/A

N/A

39.991436

0.000130

0.991024

0.991741

Dual-encoder

UNet

FusionNet

Simple addition

40.430324

0.000118

0.991504

0.992012

UNet

FusionNet

Spatial attention

40.726800

0.000113

0.992119

0.992379

UNet

FusionNet

Spatial and channel wise attention

41.859071

0.000086

0.993072

0.993681