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. 2024 Jan 25;10:e1751. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1751

Table 1. Summary table of liver occupying lesion segmentation methods.

Author Method Result Dataset Year
Das & Sabut (2016) adaptive threshold, morphological processing and kernel fuzzy C-mean (KFCM) clustering algorithm PSNR = 8.5299 MICCAI 2008 2016
Rela, Nagaraja & Ramana (2020) superpixel-based fast fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm Dice = 0.9154 20 CT images 2020
Anter, Bhattacharyya & Zhang (2020) an optimization method named CALOFCM based on fast-FCM, chaos theory, and bio-inspired ant lion optimizer Dice = 0.773 27 CT images 2020
Anter & Hassenian (2019) utilizing the watershed algorithm, neutrosophic sets (NS), and the fast fuzzy c-mean clustering algorithm Dice = 0.9288 30 CT images 2019
Liu et al. (2019) increasing the depth of U-Net and only copying pooling layer features during skip-connection and use graph segmentation to optimize the results Dice = 0.9505 codalab 2019
Xu et al. (2020) improved UNet++ and added the residual 68 structure in convolution blocks to avoid the problem of gradient disappearing. Dice = 0.9336 from 15 patients 2020
Seo et al. (2019) improved the skip connection part of U-Net by adding 70 the residual path with deconvolution layer and activation operation Dice = 0.8972 LiTS 2019
Li et al. (2020a) added an attention mechanism module to the convolution block 73 of UNet++ Dice = 0.9815 LiTS 2020
Ahmad et al. (2019a) training the deep belief network through unsupervised pretraining and supervised fine-tuning Dice = 0.9480 Dice = 0.9183 Sliver07 3Dircadb01 2019
Ahmad et al. (2022) a very lightweight convolutional neural network and Gaussian distribution for weight initialization Dice = 0.95 Dice = 0.929 Dice = 0.9731 Sliver07 3Dircadb01 LiTS 2022
Ahmad et al. (2019b) a new approach called CNN-LivSeg Dice = 0.9541 Sliver07 2019