Deep convolutional neural networks for automated segmentation of brain metastases trained on clinical data

Radiation Oncology

Table 3 Comparison of deep learning based segmentation studies for brain metastases (adapted from Dikici et al. [7]). AFPR: average false positive rate

Study	Patients	Multiparametric MRI	Dedicated Test Set	Mean BM volume (mm)	Median BM volume (mm)	Sensitivity	AFPR
Losch et al. [5]	490	no	yes	NA	NA	0.83	7.7
Charron et al. [8]	182	yes	yes	2400	500	0.93	7.8
Grøvik et al. [6]	156	yes	no	NA	NA	0.83	8.3
Dikici et al. [7]	158	no	no	159.6	50.4	0.9	9.12
Present paper	509	yes	yes	1290 (train)	310 (train)	0.77–0.82	0.08–0.35
Present paper	509	yes	yes	1920 (test)	470 (test)	0.77–0.82	0.08–0.35

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