Review Article

Gastroenterology Meets Machine Learning: Status Quo and Quo Vadis

Table 3

ML applications in medical domains.

Medicine domainML applicationsReferences

RadiologyRadiological imaging tasks such as:
 (i) Risk stratification.
 (ii) Therapy response.
 (iii) Lesions segmentation and classification.
 (iv) Multi-omics disease discovery.
 (v) Discovery of radiographic imaging biomarkers.
 (vi) Creating study protocols.
[2226]

PathologyDigital pathological image analysis notably:
 (i) Tissue phenomics.
 (ii) Histopathological imaging analysis.
 (iii) Whole Slide imaging analysis.
[14, 27, 28]

OncologyEarly cancer diagnosis and prognosis:
 (i) Cancer metastases detection.
 (ii) Molecular subtyping of cancer.
 (iii) Cancer detection from microarray gene expression data
 (iv) Risk classification of cancer survival.
[2931]

CardiologyEarly detection of cardiovascular diseases based on:
 (i) Electrocardiographic interpretation.
 (ii) Echocardiography interpretation.
 (iii) Myocardial perfusion analysis.
 (iv) Discrimination of different diseases with similar symptoms like constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and physiological hypertrophy.
[3234]

NeurologyNeurological disorders identification and prediction:
 (i) Electroencephalography data interpretation
 (ii) Electromyography data interpretation
 (iii) Augmented Intelligence such as:
 (iv) Restoring the control of movement in patients with quadriplegia.
 (v) Controlling upper-limb prostheses via Brain-computer interface.
[17, 35]