Review Article

The Progress of Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Methods for Application in COVID-19 Detection

Table 1

Comparison between existing methods for semantic segmentation.

ReferenceYearMethodAdvantagesDisadvantages

Bourdev et al. [28]2010HOGAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Xia et al. [27]2005HOGAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be implied in an extended variety of applications
Lowe [29]2004SIFTAccurate identification of areas and edgesHigh computational complexity, inability to be implied in an extended variety of applications
He and Wang [30]1990LBPHigh capability in cryptography and image data encryption and edge detection operationsThe algorithm is slow
Bay et al. [31]2008SURFAccurate identification of areas and edgesHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Derpanis [32]2004Harris corner detectionAbility to find the corners of an image outside the edges, ability to be used in a wide range of high-sensitivity image processing systemsLow accuracy and slow method
Shi and Tomasi [33]1994Shi-TomasiAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Medioni and Yasumoto [34]1987Corner detection with subpixelsAbility to find the corners of an image outside the edges, ability to be used in a wide range of high-sensitivity image processing systemsLow accuracy and slow method
Smith and Brady [35]1997SUSAN corner detectionAccurate edge detection based on texture and brightness and better capabilities than classic operators such as Canny and PrewittLow accuracy in high-resolution images and slow method
Rosten and Drummond [36]2005FASTAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Rosten et al. [37]2010FAST-ERAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high resolution and precision in multiscale modesHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Mair et al. [38]2010AGASTAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Leutenegger et al. [39]2011Multiscale AGASTAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high resolution and precision in multiscale modesHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Venegas-Barrera and Manjarrez [40]2004BOWAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Brox et al. [41]2011PoseletsAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Zhu et al. [42]2005TextonsAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Strauss and Hartigan [47]1975K-meansAbility to find clusters in images and cluster themSlow method and need to combine with faster methods
Shen et al. [54]2004Edge detection and regional growthAbility to specify areas, especially at the edges, with high clarity and accuracyHigh computational complexity, inability to be used in a wide range of applications
Shan et al. [55]2004SVMHigh capability in high-precision image classification operations in pairs and the ability to separate features with vectorsHigh computational complexity, slow method
Shotton et al. [56]2006MRFHigh capability in high-precision image classification operations in pairs and the ability to separate features with vectorsHigh computational complexity, slow method
Hassantabar et al. [61]2020CNNAbility to diagnose the COVID-19 infected lung tissue for segmentation and classification of patients(i) Small numbers of images
(ii) Unable to find illness severity
Dorosti et al. [62]2020Sensitivity analysisThis approach can help in the identification of beneficial parameters as well as the avoidance of patient mortality in all sorts of disease(i) Data limit
(ii) Ignoring other variables
Sharifi et al. [63]2021CNNDiagnosis of fatigue foot using CNN(i) High computational complexity
(ii) Integrated only on CNN method
Laradji et al. [64]2021Supervised consistency learningThe best loss function for prediction(i) Unable to detect patients uniquely
(ii) Should be connected to other methods