Table 1.
A comparison of different surveys based on lung nodules and cancer detection.
| Survey | Ref | [27] | [28] | [29] | [30] | [31] | [32] | [33] | [34] | [35] | Ours | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2019 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2021 | 2021 | — | |||
| Taxonomy | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| Dataset | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Image preprocessing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| Feature extraction | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Segmentation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Feature selection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Image modalities | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| Evaluation metrics | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| Challenges | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| AI based | Machine learning | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Deep learning | CNN | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ||
| Other | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||