Current AI applications in the diagnosis of childhood non-solid tumor

AI methodMedical fieldTaskTumorResult
CNN/GANPathologyDetecting ALL and AML using a deep learner classifier using microscopic blood imagesALL and AMLACC: 98%–98.67%[20, 21]
CNN and GANPathology/GenomicsConstructing a hybrid model using a genetic algorithm and a residual CNN to predict ALL using microscopy imagesALLACC: 98.46%[26]
SVMPathologyBuilding a model to classify acute leukemias using flow cytometryAcute promyelocytic leukemiaACC: 94.2%; AUC: 99.5[22]
ANN/FFNN/SVMPathologyProposing a ML-based model for ALL categorization using microscopic blood imagesALLACC: 98.1–100%[23, 24]
CNNPathologyBuilding an aggregated DL model for leukemic B-lymphoblast classificationLeukemic B-lymphoblastACC: 96.58%[25]
CNNPathologyUsing bone marrow cell microscopy images for the classification of AML, ALL, and CMLAML, ALL, and CMLACC: 90–99%[27]
RFOthers-mRNA sequencingDeveloping transcriptome-wide biomarkers for ALL subtypingALLACC: 97–100%[28]
ANNOthers-DNA methylationIdentifying reliable cancer-associated methylation signals in gene regions from leukemia patientsLeukemiaACC: 93.8%[29]
Nearest shrunken centroidsOthers-DNA methylationInvestigating the utility of CpG methylation status to differentiate blood from patients with ALL and AML from normal bloodALL and AMLAUC: 99.98[30]

GAN: generative adversarial network; SVM: support vector machine; ANN: artificial neural network; FFNN: feed forward neural network; ACC: accuracy; AUC: area under the curve; RF: random forest; CpG: cytosine-guanine