Table 3.

The criteria used to choose which review articles to include and which ones to exclude.

Inclusion/exclusion	Criteria
Inclusion	IC1: English language is used to write research papers
	IC2: all papers related to the lung cancer detection process
	IC3: publications in academic journals, book chapters, conference/workshop proceedings, and thesis dissertations
	IC4: published articles between the years 2000 and 2022 (in the survey, a few old papers are used for a specific purpose)
	IC5: articles being available with full text
Exclusion	EC1: not fitting with the theme of the review
	EC2: duplicate articles
	EC3: low-quality papers
	EC4: lack of enough information
	EC5: full text not available