Table Info

Table 4.

Ablation experiments on loss functions

Dataset	Base loss function	DSC↑	SE↑	SP↑	ACC↑
ISIC2017	BCE loss (A)	0.9130	0.8878	0.9867	0.9680
	Dice loss (B)	0.9152	0.9008	0.9814	0.9681
	Square Dice loss (C)	0.9155	0.9051	0.9831	0.9684
	A + B	0.9147	0.9078	0.9820	0.9680
	A + C	0.9158	0.9010	0.9858	0.9677
	B + C	0.9101	0.8854	0.9859	0.9669
	A + B + C (our proposed)	0.9160	0.9089	0.9868	0.9690

ISIC: International Skin Imaging Collaboration; BCE: Binary Cross-Entropy; DSC: Dice Similarity Coefficient; SE: sensitivity; SP: specificity; ACC: accuracy. ↑: the higher the value, the better the performance

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Declarations

Author contributions

CY: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. DZ: Validation, Writing—review & editing. SSA: Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

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Availability of data and materials

The datasets analyzed for this study can be found in ISIC17 Dataset: https://challenge.isic-archive.com/data/#2017; ISIC18 Dataset: https://challenge.isic-archive.com/data/#2018; Code Repo: https://github.com/chunyuyuan/MUCM-Net.

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