Medical Image Analysis Through Deep Learning Techniques: A Comprehensive Survey

Deep learning has been the subject of a significant amount of research interest in the development of novel algorithms for deep learning algorithms and medical image processing have proven very effective in a number of medical imaging tasks to help illness identification and diagnosis. The shortage of large-sized datasets that are also adequately annotated is a key barrier that is preventing the continued advancement of deep learning models used in medical image analysis, despite the effectiveness of these models. Over the course of the previous 5 years, a great number of research have concentrated on finding solutions to this problem. In this work, we present a complete overview of the use of deep learning techniques in a variety of medical image analysis tasks by reviewing and summarizing the current research that have been conducted in this area. In particular, we place an emphasis on the most recent developments and contributions of state-of-the-art semi-supervised and unsupervised deep learning in medical image analysis. These advancements and contributions are shortened based on various application scenarios, which include image registration, segmentation, classification and detection. In addition to this, we explore the significant technological obstacles that lie ahead and provide some potential answers for the ongoing study.