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Table 3 Summary of available methods for liver tumor segmentation

From: Practical utility of liver segmentation methods in clinical surgeries and interventions

Reference

Method

Dataset

Performance

Lin et al. [92]

Lucas-Kanade algorithm is used for discriminative training, followed by inference algorithm, which employs Lagrangian method and image sequence matching

LiTs

Accuracy: 0.8561 (SYSU-CT), 0.6571 (SYSU-US)

et al. [88]

2D-Slice Based U-Net and 3D Patch-Based CNN are employed for segmentation of liver and localization of tumor. Level-set method is used for tumor refinement

LiTs

Liver Dice: 96.31% ± 0.62%

Liver RMSD: 1.99 mm ± 0.64 mm

Tumor Dice: 72.45% ± 13.42%

Tumor RMSD: 4.99 mm ± 2.18 mm

Xi et al. [89]

Two Cascading U-ResNets for liver and tumor segmentation with a experimental study for measuring the impact of loss functions

LiTs

Liver Dice: 94.9%

Liver VOE: 0.0095

Tumor Dice: 75.2%

Tumor VOE: 0.379

Jiang et al. [93]

Cascaded Attention Hybrid Connection Network with a combination of soft and hard attention for liver and tumor segmentation

Training set: LiTS Test set: 3DIRCADb (20 patients), Clinical Dataset (117 cases)

0.62 ± 0.07 (DSC)

Seo et al. [94]

Modified U-Net (mU-Net) architecture with the residual path deconvolution over the skip-connections to prevent duplication of low-resolution information

LiTs

Liver Dice: 98.51%

Liver VOE: 3.07%

Tumor Dice: 89.72%

Tumor VOE: 21.93%

Vivanti et al. [95]

CNN trained with delineation of baseline CT scans and evaluated on follow up CT studies

Custom Dataset (67 Tumor in 21 scans)

VOE: 16.26%

Bai et al. [90]

Multi-scale candidate generation method (MCG), 3D fractal residual network (3D FRN), and active contour model (ACM) are used in a coarse-to-fine manner for liver tumor segmentation

Training set: LiTS Test set: 3DIRCADb

Tumor Dice: 0.67

Tumor VOE: 0.324

Tumor MSD: 7.113 mm