Deep Learning based Liver Segmentation: A Review

Abstract

Tremendous advancement takes place in the field of medical science. With this advancement, it is possible to support diagnosis and treatment planning for various diseases related to the abdominal organ. The liver is one of the adnominal organs, a common site for developing tumors. Liver disease is one of the main causes of death. Due to its complex and heterogeneous nature and shape, it is challenging to segment the liver and its tumor. There are numerous methods available for liver segmentation. Some are handcrafted, semi-automatic, and fully automatic. Image segmentation using deep learning techniques is becoming a very robust tool nowadays. There are many methods of liver segmentation which uses Deep Learning. This article provides the survey of the various liver segmentation schemes based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Convolution Neural network (CNN), Deep Belief network (DBN), Auto Encoder, Deep Feed-forward neural Network (DFNN), etc based on the architecture details, methodology, performance metrics and dataset details. Researchers are continuously putting efforts into improving these segmentation techniques. So this article give out a comprehensive review of deep learning-based liver segmentation techniques and highlights the advantages of the deep learning segmentation schemes over the traditional segmentation techniques.