Using Machine Learning via Deep Learning Algorithms to Diagnose the Lung Disease Based on Chest Imaging: A Survey

Abstract

— Chest imaging diagnostics is crucial in the medical area due to many serious lung diseases like cancers and nodules and particularly with the current pandemic of Covid-19. Machine learning approaches yield prominent results toward the task of diagnosis. Recently, deep learning methods are utilized and recommended by many studies in this domain. The research aims to critically examine the newest lung disease detection procedures using deep learning algorithms that use X-ray and CT scan datasets. Here, the most recent studies in this area (2015-2021) have been reviewed and summarized to provide an overview of the most appropriate methods that should be used or developed in future works, what limitations should be considered, and at what level these techniques help physicians in identifying the disease with better accuracy. The lack of various standard datasets, the huge training set, the high dimensionality of data, and the independence of features have been the main limitations based on the literature. However, different architectures of deep learning are used by many researchers but, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are still state-of-art techniques in dealing with image datasets.