Table 6 Comparison of the proposed loss function and standard loss function for class imbalance handling on test set with mean LA volume 149.80 ± 4.3 mL and EAT volume 14.63 ± 1.9 mL.

From: Poincare guided geometric UNet for left atrial epicardial adipose tissue segmentation in Dixon MRI images

Method

Dice score

LA volume

EAT volume

Cross-entropy loss

81.15 ± 3.5

150.45 ± 4.7

15.55 ± 1.7

Dice loss

83.00 ± 3.1

148.07 ± 4.5

14.37 ± 2.5

Dice loss + Cross-entropy loss

84.95 ± 2.8

149.97 ± 5.7

15.56 ± 2.6

The proposed loss

87.25 ± 2.8

149.84 ± 4.2

14.70 ± 1.3