An Efficient CNN for Hand X-Ray Overall Scoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Table 3

Ablation analysis for the proposed architecture. ↑ denotes larger is better, and ↓ denotes smaller is better. The best results with different backbones are highlighted in red.

Model	↑	MAE↓	RMSE↓	params↓ (M)	Training time (each epoch)↓	value
Baseline (B)	0.95	18.85	28.95	25	5 min 59 s	>0.05
B + DSC	0.93	18.96	29.48	3.7	2 min 49 s	>0.05
B + DSC + IRB	0.95	17.76	26.34	4.3	2 min 59 s	>0.05