Deep Learning Based Brain Tumor Segmentation: A Survey
It addresses the challenging problem of brain tumor segmentation for medical image analysis, but it is incremental as a survey rather than a novel method.
This survey comprehensively reviews over 100 deep learning methods for brain tumor segmentation, highlighting their promising results in accurately delineating tumor regions from medical images.
Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown promising performance in solving various computer vision problems, such as image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. A number of deep learning based methods have been applied to brain tumor segmentation and achieved promising results. Considering the remarkable breakthroughs made by state-of-the-art technologies, we use this survey to provide a comprehensive study of recently developed deep learning based brain tumor segmentation techniques. More than 100 scientific papers are selected and discussed in this survey, extensively covering technical aspects such as network architecture design, segmentation under imbalanced conditions, and multi-modality processes. We also provide insightful discussions for future development directions.