Review Article

Deep Learning in Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Prediction: A Minireview on Challenges, Recent Trends, and Future Directions

Table 6

Summary of the studies for the classification, segmentation, prediction, and detection of brain tumors.

PublicationDataset(s)Task(s)MethodPerformance

[148]BRATS 2019Segmentation3D fully convolutional network-based multipathway architectureDice score of 0.89, 0.78, and 0.76 for WT, TC, and ET subregions, respectively
[149]BRATS 2018 and BRATS 2019SegmentationCombination of U-Net encoding and decoding subarchitecture, dilated convolutional feature extracting layers, and a residual moduleDice score of 0.843, 0.897, and 0.906 and 0.798, 0.902, and 0.845 on ET, WT, and TC brain tumor subregions on BRATS 2018 and BRATS 2019 challenges, respectively
[150]BRATS 2015, BRATS 2017, and BRATS 2018ClassificationVGG16 and VGG19 transfer learning-based CNN models, partial least square covariance matrix, discrete cosine transform, and extreme learning machineAccuracy of 97.8%, 96.9%, and 92.5% for BRATS 2015, BRATS 2017, and BRATS 2018 datasets, respectively
[151]BRATS 2019 and 2019 CPM-RadPathClassification, segmentation, and predictionContext-aware CNN architecture for segmentation, 3D CNN architecture for classification, and LASSO for predictionDice score of 0.821, 0.895, and 0.835 for ET, WT, and TC regions, respectively, on BRATS 2019 for segmentation task, accuracy of 58.6% for survival prediction task on BRATS 2019 dataset, and balanced accuracy of 63.9% on 2019 CPM-RadPath challenge
[152]BRATS 2015SegmentationResource-efficient CNN model with memory connections and an adaptive dense blockDice coefficient score of 0.858, 0.816, and 0.818 for WT, TC, and ET subregions
[153]CustomClassification22-layered CNN architectureAccuracy of 96.56%
[154]BRATS 2013, BRATS 2014, BRATS 2017, and BRATS 2018Segmentation and classificationInception version 3+LBPDice score of 0.8373, 0.937, and 0.7994 for TC, WT, and ET subregions on BRATS 2017; dice score of 0.8834, 0.912, and 0.8184 for TC, WT, and ET on BRATS 2018; average accuracy upward of 92% on BRATS 2013, BRATS 2014, BRATS 2017, and BRATS 2018 datasets
[155]TCGA databaseClassification, segmentation, and detectionU-Net-based DL model using skip connectionsAccuracy of 99.7% on the classification task, dice score of 0.9573 on the segmentation task, and Jaccard index of 0.86 on the detection task
[156]TCIA public access repositoryClassificationAlexNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet-50, ResNet-101, and SqueezeNetAn accuracy of 99.04% using AlexNet-type architecture
[157]BRATS 2018Segmentation and prediction3D U-Net modelDice score of 0.7946, 0.9114, and 0.8304 on ET, WT, and TC, accuracy of 32.1%
[158]BRATS 2013SegmentationEnsemble of deep CNN architecturesDice score of 0.86, 0.86, and 0.88 on WT, TC, and ET
[159]CustomSegmentation and classificationU-Net architecture, VGG16 transfer learning architecture, and a fully connected architectureDice score of 0.84; accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 92% on the binary classification task
[160]BRATS 2015Segmentation and classificationMultiscale 3D CNN architectureDice score of 0.89, sensitivity of 0.89, and a specificity of 0.90
[161]BRATS 2013SegmentationDL model combining average pooling and max pooling layers along with kernelsDice score of 0.80, 0.75, and 0.71 on WT, TC, and ET
[162]CustomSegmentation and classificationMultiscale Convolutional Neural NetworkDice score of 0.894, 0.779, 0.813, and 0.828 on meningioma, glioma, pituitary tumor, and average and an accuracy of 97.3%