Segmentation of thyroid glands and nodules in ultrasound images using the improved U-Net architecture

BMC Medical Imaging

Table 3 Results of models with various types used for thyroid segmentation in recent years

Type	Authors	Method	Year	Dataset	Noudle IoU (%)	Noudle dice (%)	Gland IoU (%)	Gland dice (%)
Semi-supervised	Kunapinun et al. [46]	StableSeg GAN	2022	Private	82.0
Weakly-supervised	Liu et al. [47]	U2F-GAN	2021	Private		87.0
	Yu et al. [52]	New SSE-WSSN	2022	Private	51.2	65.8
Interactive	Shahroudnejad et al. [48]	ResDUnet	2021	Private		82.0
	Daulatabad et al. [53]	Modified U-Net (One-Click)	2021	Private		84.0
	Chu et al. [24]	MGU-Net	2021	Private	91.5	95.8
U-Net based	Buda et al. [23]	U-Net (with caliper)	2020	Private		93.4
	Liao et al. [54]	U²-Rnet	2021	Private	80.8	88.0	34.2	47.4
	Ataide et al. [55]	ResUNet	2021	Private	76.7	85.7
	Ajilisa et al. [56]	Hybrid Res-UNet3	2022	DDTI	58.8	74.1
	Lin et al. [57]	N-shape network	2022	UTNI-2021	87.0	91.9
	Nie et al. [49]	N-Net	2022	TNUI-2021	87.2	92.0
				DDTI	88.5	93.7
	Li et al. [58]	BTNet	2022	Private	81.0	89.2
				DDTI	65.4	75.7
				BUI	73.5	81.2
	Yadav et al. [59]	Hybrid-UNet (DsF_EPSF)	2022	DDTI + USC	86.6	93.2
DeepLab based	Webb et al. [50]	DeepLabv3+ based convolutional LSTM	2021	Private	53.3		73.9
	Sun et al. [60]	TNSNet	2021	Private		85.3
Other	Ma et al. [18]	Deep CNN	2017	Private	86.8	92.2
	Kumar et al. [51]	MPCNN	2020	Private		73.0 (64) 76.0 (78)		87.0 (68) 91.0 (80)
	Hu et al. [61]	CNN	2022	Private		83.0
	Dai et al. [62]	SEV-Net	2022	DDTI		95.7
	Tao et al. [63]	LCA-Net	2022	TN3K	71.2	82.1
				TN-SCUI2020	82.7	90.3
U-Net based		DSRU-Net (Ours)		Private	89.4	94.1	83.2	90.9

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