Deep Learning Based Brain Tumor Segmentation: A Survey

Zhihua Liu, Long Chen, Lei Tong, Feixiang Zhou, Zheheng Jiang, Qianni Zhang, Caifeng Shan, Yinhai Wang, Xiangrong Zhang, Ling Li, Huiyu Zhou

Published 2020-07-18Version 1

Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions with correctly located masks. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown very 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 impressive system performance. Considering state-of-the-art technologies and their performance, the purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive survey of recently developed deep learning based brain tumor segmentation techniques. The established works included in this survey extensively cover technical aspects such as the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, pre- and post-processing frameworks, datasets and evaluation metrics. Finally, we conclude this survey by discussing the potential development in future research work.