Table 14 Diagnostic performance across modern architectures with statistical measures.

From: Novel metaheuristic optimized latent diffusion framework for automated oral disease detection in public health screening

Architecture

Without enhancement (mean ± SD)

95% CI

With DentoSMART-LDM (mean ± SD)

95% CI

absolute gap

Relative improvement

Effect size (Cohen’s d)

t-test p-value

EfficientNet-B5

82.1 ± 1.2%

[81.3, 82.9]

97.3 ± 0.6%

[96.9, 97.7]

15.2%

18.5%

3.24

p < 0.001

ResNet-152

79.7 ± 1.4%

[78.8, 80.6]

96.4 ± 0.7%

[95.9, 96.9]

16.7%

21.0%

3.41

p < 0.001

Vision transformer

83.4 ± 1.1%

[82.7, 84.1]

97.8 ± 0.5%

[97.5, 98.1]

14.4%

17.3%

3.18

p < 0.001

ConvNeXt-Large

84.2 ± 1.0%

[83.6, 84.8]

97.1 ± 0.6%

[96.7, 97.5]

12.9%

15.3%

2.97

p < 0.001

Swin transformer

85.1 ± 0.9%

[84.6, 85.6]

98.2 ± 0.4%

[97.9, 98.5]

13.1%

15.4%

3.05

p < 0.001

DenseNet-201

80.8 ± 1.3%

[80.0, 81.6]

95.9 ± 0.8%

[95.4, 96.4]

15.1%

18.7%

3.29

p < 0.001

RegNet-Y

81.5 ± 1.2%

[80.7, 82.3]

96.7 ± 0.7%

[96.2, 97.2]

15.2%

18.7%

3.26

p < 0.001

EfficientNetV2

84.7 ± 1.0%

[84.1, 85.3]

97.5 ± 0.5%

[97.2, 97.8]

12.8%

15.1%

2.94

p < 0.001

Average

82.7 ± 1.1%

[82.2, 83.2]

97.1 ± 0.6%

[96.8, 97.4]

14.4%

17.5%

3.17

p < 0.001