Research Article

A Comprehensive Survey on the Progress, Process, and Challenges of Lung Cancer Detection and Classification

Table 11

Most commonly utilized deep learning classifiers for classifying nodules and cancer.

Model namePurposeData typeResult (%)StrengthLimitation

DBN with RBM [317]To detect nodules with deep networksCTAcc 92.83No relative location information is ignored to extract features that express the original image betterThe references were very limited with less info of method
DRL [318]Detecting lung cancer with several potential deep reinforcement learning modelsCTAcc 80Got promising results in tumor localizationThe result of their work is not fully cleared
DRN [319]Detecting lung cancer in FDG-PET imaging under ultra-low-dose PET scansPETAcc 97.1Lung cancer detection is automated even at low effective radiation dosesThe outcome is insufficient
DBN with RBM [320]Testing the feasibility of using DL algorithms for lung cancer diagnosisCTAcc 79.40It has shown very promising resultsAccuracy was slightly less than CNN model
Deep denoising autoencoder [321]A combination of deep-learned representations was employed to create a lengthy feature vector, which was then used to train the classification of nodulesCTAcc 95.5Increased the ability to differentiate between malignant and benign nodules, with a significant improvement in sensitivityThe dataset was not a benchmarked dataset
DRN [322]Training model first and applying 3D ConvNet to detect lung nodule with hybrid loss learningCTAcc 86.7It detects pulmonary nodules from low-dose CT scansDetects small nodules and cannot classify malignant or benign nodules
DBN with RBM [23]Comparing DL and CNN model on lung nodule detectionCTSens 73.4It solves the longstanding challenge of classifying lung nodules as malignant or benign without computing morphological or textural dataThe classification was very limited
DRN [323]Identification of lung nodules from CT scans is efficient for lung cancer diagnosis, and false positive reduction is important, so it was the aimCTAcc 98It is reliable and detects well. It may also be easily extended to detect 3D objects.Figures and table are not referred clearly
DRL [77]Developing and validating a reinforcement learning model for early identification of lung nodules in CT imagesCTAcc 99.1Eliminated the major issue of false positives in CT lung nodule screening, saving unwanted tests and expendituresOnly the big nodules were detected
Deep denoising autoencoder [324]A spherical harmonic expansion is used as it has ability to approximate the surfaces of tough shapes of the detected lung nodulesCTAcc 96It can show small or big lung nodule spatial inhomogeneitiesClassification of nodule as malignant or benign was not done
Multilayer perceptron model [325]To analyze the performance of several ML methods for detecting lung cancerCTAcc 88.55The presented image preprocessing method detects cancerous bulkThe layers of the model were not discussed briefly
Deep stacked autoencoder [326]The main purpose is to train a 3D CNN with data and convert it into a 3D fully convolutional network (FCN) that can generate the score mapCTSens 80It can generate the score map for the whole volume in a single passThe results were not compared with other models
Deep sparse autoencoder [327]Analyzing the nodules of CT data and helping the experts to be more the accurate with proposed analysis toolCTAcc 99.57Improving the display of actual medical CT data may automatically extract pulmonary nodule featuresThe information of dataset is missing
GAN [328]Building a 3D U-Net and CNN to segment and identify nodule and assist the radiologists understand CT imagesCTAcc 95.4Malignant nodule detection is precise and effectiveDetects large nodule more accurately than the small nodules
Deep stacked autoencoder [260]To get an accurate diagnosis of the detected lung nodulesCTAcc 92.20It classified nodules using higher-order MGRF and geometric criteriaThey did not mention any reshape or resize techniques