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Table 3 Performance comparison of kidney image algorithms for other applications

From: Application of visual transformer in renal image analysis

Algorithms

Datasets

Evaluation indicators/results

Main views and contributions

Usage

VGG19 [87]

Private dataset

ACC: 98%

VGG19 uses a deeper network structure and a small convolutional kernel for improved feature extraction

Kidney cysts detection

EANet [88]

CT KIDNEY DATASET: Normal-Cyst-Tumor and Stone

ACC: 83.65%

Introduction of attention mechanism, multi-scale feature fusion, efficient network design, cross-layer feature interaction

Kidney cyst classification

ResNet50 [88]

CT KIDNEY DATASET: Normal-Cyst-Tumor and Stone

ACC: 87.92%

Having introduced Residual Block and Batch Normalization

Kidney cyst classification

MD-BERT-LGBM [96]

private dataset

ACC: 78.12%

AUC: 85.15%

The model integrates a bi-directional encoder representation of the Transformer with an optical gradient lifter, a multimodal data model

CKD disease prediction

KidneyRegNet [90]

KiTS19/in-house datasets

KiTS19 (DSC: 96.88%, Sensitivity: 0.9711, Specificity: 0.9667)/in-house (DSC: 96.39%, Sensitivity: 0.9736, Specificity: 0.9560)

A new depth-alignment pipeline for free-breathing 3D CT and 2D U/S renal scans is proposed

Kidney alignment

ChatGPT [23]

NA

NA

The core algorithm is the Transformer, which combines the Transformer model's self-attention mechanism with the language model's generative power

Nelson syndrome (NS) pathology report writing

MulGT [100]

TCGA-KICA/TCGA-ESCA

KICA (Typing: AUC: 98.44%, ACC: 93.89%, F1: 93.89%, Staging: AUC: 80.22%, ACC: 74.98%, F1: 72.55%)/ESCA (Typing: AUC: 97.49%, ACC: 92.81%, F1: 92.74%, Staging: AUC: 71.48%, ACC: 66.63%, F1: 65.73%)

A domain knowledge-driven graph pooling module was designed to simulate diagnostic patterns for different analysis tasks

WSI task diagnostics

Transformer [22]

DIVAT (Database of Kidney Transplantation Medical Records)

NA

For use in medical fields where continuous-time decision-making is required

Medical decision system

Transformer [99]

Dataset of 56 renal biopsy WSIs in patients with DN

AUC: 97%

A multi-stage ESRD prediction framework based on the Transformer model

For encoding WSI (whole-slice images) and predicting future ESRDs

Transformer [20]

Private dataset

F1: 96.3%,

AUC: 98.9%

Predicting Kidney Transplant Function Using the Critical Mask Tensor of the Transformer Dot Product Attention Mechanism

Predicting kidney transplant function

COVID-Net [21]

Private dataset

Survival prediction: ACC:93.55%,

Kidney Injury Complications: ACC:88.05%

Proposing an interpretability-driven framework for building machine learning models to predict survival and kidney injury in patients with no coronary pneumonia from clinical and biochemical data

Predicting survival and kidney injury in patients with new crown pneumonia

ExKidneyBERT [24]

Private dataset

OneQA (ACC: 83.3%)

TwoQA (ACC: 95.8%)

Linguistic modeling of renal transplantation pathology reports

Renal pathology reports