Machine learning applications for early detection of esophageal cancer: a systematic review

Table 1 Characteristics of studies for early detection of EC using ML

Title	Algorithm	Image	Patient	Country
Lou et al. 2020	U-Net	80	-	China
Ghatwary et al. 2019	Faster R-CNN Single-Shot Multibox Detector	100	39	UK
Tang et al. 2022	multi-task classification and segmentation)MTCS(	805	255	China
Ghatwary et al. 2019	Faster R-CNN	1000	-	UK
Yu et al. 2021	Multi-task learning (MTL)	1003	-	Taipa
Wu et al. 2021	Faster-RCNN Dual-Stream Network (DSN)	1051	-	China
Liu et al. 2020	Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)	1272	748	China
Groof et al. 2020	hybrid ResNet-Unet	1704	669	Netherland
Tang et al.2021	DCNN	4002	1078	China
Meng et al. 2022	YOLO v5	4447	837	China
Gong et al. 2022	“Neuro-T” version 2.3.2	5162	-	Korea
Shiroma et al.2021	Single Shot MultiBox Detecto	8428	-	Japan
Du et al. 2021	random weighted sampling (RWS)	20,965	4,077	China
Putten et al. 2020	U-Net	494,356	-	Netherland
Gan et al. 2020	dual-stage U-shape convolution network (D-UCN)	-	-	China
Wang et al. 2021	Cascade RCNN	-	80	China
Sui et al. 2021	V-Net	-	414	China
Takeuchi et al. 2021	VGG16	-	457	Japan
Ghatwary et al. 2021	3DCNN	-	-	UK
Alharbe et al. 2022	Deep transfer learning	-	-	Saudi Arabia
Zhao et al. 2022	Google Net V3 TensorFlow 1.6	-	300	China
Collins et al. 2021	SVM, MLP, 3DCNN	-	10	France
Zhao et al.2021	CNN	-	500	China
Chen et al.2021	Faster RCNN	1520	421	China
Tsai et al.2021	Single Shot MultiBox Detector	155	-	Taiwan
Tsai et al.2022	single-shot multi-box detector	1780	-	China
Sali et al.2020	ResNet34	387	130	USA
Wang et al. 2021	single-shot multibox detector	498	-	Taiwan
Zhang et al. 2022	Faster R-CNN VGG16	6445	200	China
Guo et al.2020	SegNet	6473	-	China
Fang et al. 2022	U-Net	75	-	Taiwan

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