Review Article

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

Table 3

Comparison between existing methods in the field of segmentation in mammographic images.

ReferenceMethodAdvantagesDisadvantages

Rouhi et al. [69]2015Regional growth with a cellular neural network with a specific thresholdAbility to diagnose benign and malignant tumors, high accuracy in classificationHigh computational complexity
(i) Lack of accurate detection of areas with tumor
(ii) Lack of comparison with previous methods
Kaymak et al. [70]2017Back-Propagation (BP)A convenient way to use in neural network training, highly fast execution speed in trainingUncertainty of the exact type of approach proposed and lack of comparison at the time of classification and uncertainty of benign and malignant tumors
Karabatak [71]2015Naïve BayesianAbility to diagnose benign and malignant tumors, high accuracy in classificationHigh computational complexity
(i) Lack of accurate detection of areas with tumor
(ii) Lack of comparison with previous methods
Wang et al. [72]2018Regression-based methodsAbility to estimate and predict remaining life based on tumor size, high accuracy in detection
Pereira et al. [73]2014Wavelet analysis and genetic algorithmAbility to diagnose benign and malignant tumors, high accuracy in classificationHigh computational complexity
(i) Lack of accurate diagnosis of areas with tumor
(ii) Lack of comparison with previous methods
Cordeiro et al. [75]2016Semisupervised adaptive algorithm GrowCutAbility to diagnose benign and malignant tumors, high accuracy in classificationHigh computational complexity
(i) Lack of accurate detection of areas with tumor
(ii) Lack of comparison with previous methods
Ahmed et al. [76]2020Mask RCNN(i) Increased AUC for transfer learning
(ii) Use for X-ray mammographic image
(i) Low accuracy
(ii) Used low volume dataset for verification
(iii) High rate of oversampling
Lee et al. [77]2020Multiscale grid average pooling(i) Utilizing global and local spatial feature
(ii) Novel attention module
(iii) Ultrasound image dataset
(i) Lower accuracy of segmentation
(ii) High computational complexity
(iii) A small volume of the dataset
Soulami et al. [78]2021UNet model(i) High accuracy for breast cancer detection
(ii) High f1-score and AUC
(i) High complexity model
(ii) Overfitting in some models
(iii) Lower volume of analysis
Huang et al. [79]2021Fuzzy fully CNN(i) Fuzzy membership function
(ii) Conditional random fields
(i) Low sensitivity
(ii) Low intersection over union
(iii) Low resolution and poor quality