Table 1 Summary of existing works.

From: Optimised RFO tuned RF-DETR model for precision urine microscopy for renal and systemic disease diagnosis

Author (Year)

Target

Technology

Detection Method

Performance

Application Area

Limitation

Kodogiannis et al.41

UTI detection

Electronic nose + ENRBF neural model

Volatile compound analysis

100% accuracy

Point-of-care diagnostics

Small sample size; clinical validation needed

Sharma & Sharan (2015)

Glucose

Photonic crystal-based biosensor

Refractive index simulation

High sensitivity

Lab-on-chip integration

Simulated only; lacks clinical validation

Seo et al.54 

UTI detection

Paper-based colorimetric + BLE

Nitrite detection

4 mg/L limit

Wearable real-time monitoring

Focus on nitrite alone; limited biomarker range

Roux-Dalvai et al.50 

Bacterial ID

MALDI-TOF MS

Proteomic fingerprinting

Rapid & accurate

Clinical diagnostic integration

Dependent on high-cost equipment

Saberi et al.51 

Potassium

G-quadruplex aptasensor

Fluorescence recovery

12.3 nM

Ion-selective alternative

Performance under clinical conditions not tested

McKay et al.45

UTI biomarkers

Lens-free holographic imaging

RBC, WBC, E. coli

R² > 0.99

Portable low-resource use

Lacks full clinical integration; lab comparison limited

Massy et al.44

CKD progression

Machine learning + peptidomics

CE-MS analysis

Outperformed standards

Risk stratification

High-cost; requires specialized instruments

Durán Acevedo et al. 24

Prostate cancer

Electronic tongue + ML

Urine pattern recognition

92.9% accuracy

Non-invasive screening

Still in prototype stage; broader validation needed

Cui et al.21

Cell detection

NPANet + Adaptive-IoU

Urine sediment images

SOTA performance

Urinary microscopy automation

Focused on small datasets; not field-tested

Durán Acevedo et al.24 

Prostate cancer

Electronic tongue + ML

Carbon electrode classification

92.9% accuracy

Alternative to biopsy

Repetition of previous methods; needs multi-center trials

Akhtar et al.13

Urine sediment

VGG-19 CNN

12-class image classification

98% accuracy

Smart pathology tools

Dataset bias; real-world robustness untested

Ye et al.65

Albumin

UVC LED + quantum dot

Label-free colorimetry

0.56–0.61 mg/mL

Miniature real-time detection

Focused on limited biomarkers

Ja’farawy et al.14

Uric acid

SERS-based aptasensor

AgNPs on PDMS

0.32 µM; R² = 0.998

Low-cost UA testing

May be influenced by interfering substances

AlSayed Ali et al. (2024)

Creatinine

Bifilar helix antenna + ML

EM scattering

93% accuracy

Instant chemical-free testing

Still under early-stage testing

Fajardo et al.25

Dehydration

LIG + EIS + ML

Urine osmolarity

R² ≈ 0.96

Low-cost hydration monitor

Not yet validated in large clinical trials

Panda et al.47

Kidney stones

ML (logistic regression)

Urine chemical features

93% accuracy

Cost-effective diagnosis

Limited to six urine parameters

Yang & Deng (2025)

Heart failure risk

GBDT

Heavy metal exposure

AUC = 0.92

Environmental cardiology insights

Observational data; causality not confirmed

Siegel et al.58

Tobacco effects

ML clustering

Urinary biomarkers

HR = 2.24 (high risk)

E-cigarette risk analysis

Requires biomarker standardization

Mosterd et al.46

Creatinine

MOF@CDs fluorescent probe

Dual-mode detection

0.23 µM

Environmental correction

Laboratory-only validation

Geethukrishnan et al.29 

Uric acid

CoFe-LDH@rGO biosensor

Electrochemical synergy

0.17 µM

Stable UA sensor

Lacks large-scale clinical trials

Sheele et al.56

Antibiotic prediction

XGBoost

Clinical metadata

High accuracy

ED treatment optimization

Model generalizability not evaluated