Review Article

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

Table 4

DL methods used in COVID-19 detection and diagnosis.

AuthorPurposeMethodAdvantagesDisadvantagesDL architectureResults

Luz et al. [144]To provide an accurate and efficient method for COVID-19 screening with chest X-rays for memory and processing timeUsing EfficientNet artificial neural networksHigh accuracyLarge and heterogeneous databaseThe use of algorithms, or artificial neural networks, is inspired by the brain's structure and functionFrom the hierarchical classification, experiments were performed to evaluate the performance of the neural network in the COVID-19 data. It became possible to use data transfer techniques and reinforce data. The accuracy was 93.9
Liu et al. [12]Determining areas of infection and examining the lungs with the help of a chest CT scanUse of CT scans to evaluate COVID-19, evaluation of system performance based on DL. This experiment was performed on 249 patientsPatient availability, high accuracyLack of sufficient informationClassification based on DL of VB-Net neural networkA DL system was developed for the segmentation and measurement of infection areas in CT scans of patients with COVID-19. The quantitative evaluation showed high accuracy for the infected area based on POI criteria
Li et al. [13]Development of artificial intelligence CT imaging tools to diagnose coronavirus and isolate sick people away from healthy peopleUses powerful 2D and 3D DL models. Modifies and adapts existing AI models. This experiment was performed on 157 patientsHigh accuracyComplexity2D and 3D DL models were usedThe AI-based analysis is rapidly evolving in the diagnosis of coronavirus, and the detection is being made with great accuracy
Wang and Wong [14]Assist physicians in improving COVID-19 screeningPolymer reverse chain reaction screening from RT-PCR to diagnose COVID-19Better understanding and character analysis by physicians, accelerating the development of high-precision DL solutionsComplexity, being time-consumingUse of artificial intelligence systems based on DL, hardening and evaluation of COVID-Net prototype using Keras DL library with TensorFlow backgroundAssist physicians in improving screening, use of CXR images to diagnose COVID-19
Ghoshal and Tucker [145]Evaluation of prop weights-based elliptic irritable neural networks (BCNN) to improve performance for COVID-19 diagnosisUsing the transmission learning method in COVID-19 X-ray imagesImprovements in the diagnosis of COVID-19Uncertainty in detection for radiologistsUse of DL for classified tasks, as well as chest radiographic diagnosis for COVID-19Estimated uncertainty with DL can warn radiologists of incorrect predictions, which increases the use of DL in diagnosing the disease
Narin et al. [146]Evaluation of the use of focal neural network-based methods to detect an infected patient using X-ray radiography of the chestUse InceptionV3, ResNet50, and InceptionResNetV50 to diagnose infected patientHigh-performance ResNet50 model
(i) High accuracy
(ii) Cost reduction
Ambiguity in matricesUsing COVID-19 X-ray images for DL models, using transition learning methodsPreliminary diagnosis of COVID-19 patients to prevent the spread of this disease in other people, using the ResNet50 model with 98% accuracy
Hemdon et al. [20]The implementation of a DL framework for automated COVID-19 diagnosis of X-ray imagesIt was performed on 50 chest X-ray photographs of 25 positive COVID-19 cases. Seven distinct architectures from deep concealer neural network models are used in COVIDX-NetAutomatic diagnosis of COVID-19ComplexityUse the COVID-19 classification to diagnose COVID-19 on X-ray images automatically using one of the DL frameworksX-ray images based on the COVIDX-Net framework proposed
Zhang et al. [147]Detection and differentiation of viral patient from the nonviral patientExperiment on COVIDX data including 106 COVID-19 casesStrengthen and improve the model, more efficiency in treatmentComplex calculationsAnalysis of medical images including staging detection and drawing of pathological abnormalities, X-ray image changeDetection of the abnormality by viral pneumonia screening works well on chest X-ray images
The learning model is useful for predicting job failure
We have the CAAD model and we have never seen such cases in COVID-19, the data had 83.61% AUC, and the sensitivity was 70.71%
Maghdid et al. [21]Provide artificial intelligence tools for fast and accurate detection of COVID-19, create a comprehensive set of X prototypesUsing X-rays and scanning CT images and using DL algorithmsCreating intelligent detection methods with higher efficiency
(i) Increasing detection speed
(ii) Increasing accuracy
ComplexityBuild a DL-based detection system to detect COVID-19 pneumonia using DL algorithmsAccelerate the diagnosis of COVID-19 using the CNN model
Zeraati et al. [148]Automatic classification of lung diseases including COVID-19 with X-ray imagesUse of advanced convolutional neural network called MobileNet, use of 3905 X-ray images of more than 6 patientsAutomatic diagnosis of COVID-19 from medical images
(i) Low cost
(ii) High speed
LimitationsUse DL to extract large-sized features from medical imagesLow-cost, fast, and automatic diagnosis of COVID-19. Different infections may be differentiated by computer and detection using features extracted by DL
Li et al. [149]Provide a fast and reliable way to diagnose COVID-19Use 1020 CT images of 108 patients with COVID-19, use of ten confidential neural networks to diagnose COVID-19Rapid diagnosis of COVID-19, being validHigh expensesUse of CAD system based on DL to classify COVID-19 against other pneumoniaUsing the textual CAD method on CT images to differentiate COVID-19 from other pneumococcal diseases. ResNet-101 can be used to diagnose COVID-19
Arora et al. [26]Predict the number of new coronavirusesUse LSTM-based RNN for forecastingHigh accuracy of forecastingHigh complexity and volume of dataUse the LSTM DL modelTwo-way LSTM gives the best result and confidential LSTM gives the worst result. biLSTM gives very accurate results for short-term forecasts, such as 1 to 3 days, with less than 3% error
Huang et al. [150]Quantitative evaluation of changes in lung tolerance in patients with COVID-19 using CT scan with an automated DL methodCT images show the entire lung and are measured and compared by commercial DL softwareClassification of different groups and better detectionLoss of initial findingsChest CT image evaluation using DLThe lung failure rate in COVID-19 was measured using a DL instrument based on a chest CT image and there was a significant difference between different groups
Oh et al. [151]Use of the neural network to diagnose COVID-19Inspired by CXR radiographic imagingThe usefulness of this method for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and patient triageDifficulty in training deep neural network, difficulty in collecting big dataUse of X-ray chest images to classify COVID-19Use artificial intelligence to improve CXR performance for detection
Liang et al. [152]Use of a DL model to predict diseaseInclusion of 1590 patients from 575 medical centers, Use of DL modelsEarly detectionComplexity of calculationsUse of an integrated Cox model called Survival Cox DLAt least 60% of the data were used for prediction. A DL model was used to predict which was efficient