Literature Review of Deep Learning Models for Liver Vessels Reconstruction

Deep learning (DL) is one of the most important machine learning methods which has achieved great success in the field of medical image analysis. DL teaches a computer model how to perform classification tasks directly from images, but since the acquisition problems of these images this method has lost its effectiveness mainly for the segmentation of complex structures such as vessels that are hardly or not visible in the raw data. Nowadays, researchers are trying to find solutions to these kinds of problem since the information of the local appearance of pixel are not enough. To illustrate the limits of using standard DL models for vessel reconstruction, we first show a comparative study based on the IRCAD dataset. This experiment motivates our study, wherein we provide a review of DL models which covers liver vessel segmentation and medical image processing, in order to confirm if these problems can be solved by DL, and discusses a new approach to guide the experts who want to use these approaches in their work. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out. More than 40 papers were founded by manual search in Elsevier, Springer and Science Direct, IEEE, 20 primary studies were finally included. According to the literature studies, we will define the most pertinent articles related to DL applications for complex structure reconstruction. Results: DL based topological signature methods have better results than classical topics and DL based pixelwise.