Table 5 Impact of multi-scale supervision on model performance. Each additional level contributes to improved feature refinement.

From: Bilateral collaborative streams with multi-modal attention network for accurate polyp segmentation

Supervision levels

Endoscene

ClinicDB

ColonDB

ETIS

Kvasir-SEG

Avg.

Single level (final only)

0.902

0.936

0.807

0.785

0.923

0.871

Two levels

0.904

0.938

0.812

0.795

0.925

0.875

Three levels

0.906

0.939

0.816

0.803

0.927

0.878

Four levels (complete)

0.908

0.941

0.821

0.810

0.929

0.882

Total improvement

+0.6

+0.5

+1.4

+2.5

+0.6

+1.1