Research Article

A New Classification Method in Ultrasound Images of Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules Based on Transfer Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Table 5

Time consumed by different CNN models to diagnose thyroid ultrasound images.

Sample noLeNet5VGG16GoogLeNetOur method (improved inception)

114.6519.2315.6916.70
213.9720.5616.5316.87
315.5618.5917.5918.47
415.5521.9518.8118.91
515.1322.3717.0317.05
Average14.5720.5017.0917.36