Table 4 Ablation study of the proposed S3ET-Net model, analyzing the impact of each module (GhostNet, S3O, EfficientNet) on performance metrics. The full configuration outperforms all ablated versions across accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, and F1-score, confirming the critical role of each component.
Configuration | GhostNet | S3O | EfficientNet | Accuracy | Precision | Recall | Specificity | F1-Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full model (S3ET-Net) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 99.41 | 97.19 | 96.15 | 96.75 | 96.24 |
Without S3O | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | 96.28 | 94.83 | 93.90 | 94.65 | 96.22 |
Without GhostNet | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | 94.85 | 93.45 | 92.60 | 93.31 | 95.31 |
Without EfficientNet (→ DNN) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (DNN) | 92.34 | 91.20 | 89.50 | 91.88 | 93.84 |
Baseline (EfficientNet only) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | 90.62 | 88.95 | 87.23 | 90.12 | 91.70 |