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ReviewComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2021

Deep Learning in Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Prediction: A Minireview on Challenges, Recent Trends, and Future Directions.

Ahsan Bin Tufail, Yong-Kui Ma, Mohammed K A Kaabar, Francisco Martínez, A R Junejo, Inam Ullah, Rahim Khan

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Review in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
14.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Ahsan Bin TufailSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Yong-Kui MaSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9535-5167
Mohammed K A KaabarGofa Camp, Near Gofa Industrial College and German Adebabay, Nifas Silk-Lafto, 26649 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2260-0341
Francisco MartínezDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Technological University of Cartagena, Cartagena 30203, Spain.
A R JunejoSchool of Control Science and Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Inam UllahCollege of Internet of Things (IoT) Engineering, Hohai University (HHU), Changzhou Campus, 213022, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5879-569X
Rahim KhanSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0928-915X
Harbin Institute of Technology · CNCOMSATS University Islamabad · PKHohai University · CNUniversidad Politécnica de Cartagena · ESUniversity of Malaya · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) is a branch of machine learning and artificial intelligence that has been applied to many areas in different domains such as health care and drug design. Cancer prognosis estimates the ultimate fate of a cancer subject and provides survival estimation of the subjects. An accurate and timely diagnostic and prognostic decision will greatly benefit cancer subjects. DL has emerged as a technology of choice due to the availability of high computational resources. The main components in a standard computer-aided design (CAD) system are preprocessing, feature recognition, extraction and selection, categorization, and performance assessment. Reduction of costs associated with sequencing systems offers a myriad of opportunities for building precise models for cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction. In this survey, we provided a summary of current works where DL has helped to determine the best models for the cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction tasks. DL is a generic model requiring minimal data manipulations and achieves better results while working with enormous volumes of data. Aims are to scrutinize the influence of DL systems using histopathology images, present a summary of state-of-the-art DL methods, and give directions to future researchers to refine the existing methods.

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Deep LearningAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceComputational BiologyDatabases, FactualDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedFemaleHumansMachine LearningMaleNeoplasmsPrognosis

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PMID34754327
PMCPMC8572604
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