Table 4 Summary of key experiments.

From: An enhanced diabetic retinopathy detection approach using optimized deep learning technique

Experiment

Objective

Key metrics

Baseline Comparison

Compare DGOA-ensemble with existing traditional optimization and classification methods

Accuracy, F1-score, AUC-ROC, inference time

Ablation Study

Assess DGOA’s impact on feature selection

Accuracy change, feature reduction, training time

Dataset Split Testing

Evaluate generalization ability

Cross-validation results, standard deviation of accuracy

Noisy Data & Augmentation

Test robustness against real-world distortions

Accuracy drop, robustness factor

Computational Efficiency

Measure scalability and speed

Training time, inference speed, memory usage

Class Imbalance Handling

Evaluate performance on minority classes

AUC-ROC, Precision-Recall, F1-score

Statistical Significance

Confirm reliability of improvements

p-value, confidence intervals

Explainability Analysis

Understand feature importance

SHAP/LIME visualizations, feature impact scores

Comparative Analysis

Compare the suggested model with state-of-the art diabetic retinopathy detection approaches

Accuracy, F1-score, AUC-ROC