Review Article

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

Table 2

Comparison between existing methods in the segmentation field in MRI images.

ReferenceYearMethodAdvantagesDisadvantages

Darwiesh et al. [57]2016The method of Brownian motion of water molecules to produce contrastDetecting edge areas to separate sections with tumors and nontumor sections(i) Lack of detection of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) High computational complexity and slow method
(iii) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Aslam et al. [58]2015Edge detectionDetecting edge areas to separate sections with tumors and nontumor sections(i) Lack of detection of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) High computational complexity and slow method
(iii) Low accuracy
(iv) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Qiao et al. [59]2021Watershed and hierarchical clustering algorithmDetecting edge areas to separate sections with tumors and nontumor sections(i) Lack of diagnosis of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) High computational complexity and slow method
(iii) Low accuracy
(iv) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Ain et al. [60]2014Concrete anisotropic emission based on group classification, support vector machine (SVM), and FCMHigh accuracy in diagnosing and classifying areas with tumorsLack of comparison with previous methods and lack of consideration for comparison with DL methods or other neural networks
Mobahi et al. [48]2011Genetic algorithm and discrete wavelet transform threshold methodDetecting edge areas to separate sections with tumors and nontumor sections
Karnan, and Selvanayaki [65]2010The combined approach of ant colony optimization algorithms and genetic algorithmDetecting edge areas to separate sections with tumors and nontumors sections(i) Lack of diagnosis of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) Very high computational complexity and slowness of the method
(iii) Low accuracy
(iv) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Ghosh et al. [66]2018FCM-based chaotic firefly algorithm(i) Detecting edge areas for separating tumor and nontumor sections
(ii) High execution speed with the complexity of the method
(iii) Accurate detection of features
(i) High computational complexity
(ii) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Zhu et al. [67]2018Particle swarm optimization (PSO)(i) Detecting edge areas for separating tumor and nontumor sections
(ii) High execution speed with the complexity of the method
(iii) Accurate detection of features
(i) Lack of diagnosis of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) High computational complexity and slow method
(iii) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Alagarsamy et al. [68]2019Bat algorithm(i) Detecting edge areas for separating tumor and nontumor sections
(ii) High execution speed with the complexity of the method
(iii) Accurate detection of features
(i) Lack of detection of tumors in other tumors or other areas
(ii) High computational complexity and slow method
(iii) Lack of separation of areas with benign and malignant tumors
Memiş et al. [158]2020Deep CNNFinding the head bone femoral and femur properties for low-quality MRI images(i) Small volume of the dataset for validation and verification
(ii) Unable to support any types of disease
Duran et al. [159]2020Self-attention modelEnd-to-end attention model with multiple classes(i) Only unable to detect prostate cancer
(ii) An additional mechanism for CAD models
Hu et al. [137]20193D-DenseUNet-569(i) Adaptable to depthwise separable convolution
(ii) Drop the GPU processing time
(i) Low-level feature extraction
(ii) Improper for big data
(iii) Unable to adapt to 2D images
Karayegen & Feyzi [161]2021Deep learning models(i) High prediction method
(ii) Differing modality of MRI images
(iii) 3D image analysis
(i) Limited dataset for verification
(ii) Do not use all image area
(iii) Needs ground truth
Ahmadi et al. [162]2021Deep spiking neural network(i) Low computational complexity
(ii) Used quantum filter
(iii) High accuracy
(i) Multistep method
(ii) Overfitting in some analysis
Ahmadi et al. [163]2021Robust PCA and CNN(i) Clustering and segmentation method
(ii) Automated clustering
(iii) Used remove outliers
(iv) High accuracy and sensitivity
(i) High complexity
(ii) Do not support 3D images