Table 3 Cross-validation fold distribution with patient-level separation.

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

Fold

Training patients

Training images

Validation patients

Validation images

Pathology balance check

Fold 1

4715

14,000

1179

3500

χ² = 0.231, p = 0.891

Fold 2

4715

14,000

1179

3500

χ² = 0.198, p = 0.923

Fold 3

4715

14,000

1179

3500

χ² = 0.267, p = 0.847

Fold 4

4715

14,000

1179

3500

χ² = 0.203, p = 0.915

Fold 5

4715

14,000

1179

3500

χ² = 0.245, p = 0.872