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. 2021 Jan 3;15(1):1–22. doi: 10.1007/s12065-020-00540-3

Table 17.

Efficient CNN architectures For medical image understanding

Organ (modality) Diseases Tasks Best architecture
Brain MRI Alzheimer Segementation Lenet-5, GoogleNet
Detection Multipath CNN
Epilepsy Classification CNN with seven conv and
Schizophrenic, bipolar disorder Segementation Patch based CNN with 4 conv, 2 maxpool and softmax regression
Breast mammogram Tumour Segementation (Conv + maxpool) × 2+2 FC, Softmax
Detection Scaled VGGnet or GoogleNet
Classification Alexnet
Localization Semi Supervised Deep CNN
Heart (CT) Coronary artery calcium scoring Segmentation Two path CNN
Heart (ECG) ECG Classification Two path CNN, one along spatial and the other along temporal and fused together finally
Heart (MRI) left ventricle Localization (Conv, maxpool) ×2, FC
Lung (CT) Cancer Classification Ensemble of overfeat across axial, saggital and coronal plane
Nodule Detection Lenet, Overfeat
COVID-19 Classification multi scale multi encoder ensemble CNN model
ILD Classification Any CNN architecture like Alexnet
Hep-2 cell Classification (Conv, maxpool) ×3, 2 FC, softmax regressor
Eye Haemorrhage Detection (Conv, ReLu, maxpool) ×5, FC, softmax classifier
Glaucoma Detection (Conv, ReLu, maxpool) ×2, FC with adaboost
Retinopathy Segmentation (Conv, ReLu, maxpool) ×10, 3 FC, softmax classifier
Colon Polyp Classification Any simple CNN architecture
Polyp Detection Ensemble of CNN
Skin Melanoma Detection (Conv, ReLu, maxpool) ×2, FC
Liver (CT) Classification (Conv, maxpool) ×2, 3 conv, max pool, 3 FC, softmax
Abdomen (US scan) Fetus Localization (Conv, ReLU, maxpool) ×2 conv ×3, maxpool, FC ×3