Table 1 Limitations and outcomes of previous work.

From: Identification of kidney stones in KUB X-ray images using VGG16 empowered with explainable artificial intelligence

Author

Dataset

Dataset type

Technique

Outcomes

Limitations

Data augmentation

Improvable Accuracy

Use of XAI

Chiang et al.47

105 healthy controls and 151 patients with calcium oxalate stones

Handcrafted features

ANN and DA

ANN achieved an accuracy of 89%, while DA achieved 75%

No

Yes

No

Dussol et al.48

119 stone formers and 96 controls

Handcrafted features

ANN (LDA and MVDA)

ANN with LDA gives a high accuracy of 75.8% compared to ANN with MVDA (74.4%)

No

Yes

No

Cauderella et al.49

80 patient’s data

Handcrafted features

ANN and LR

Comparing the performance of ANN with LR and then observing that ANN gives better accuracy of 88.8% compared to LR (67.5%)

No

Yes

No

Kumar and Abhishek50

Data from 1000 patients

Handcrafted features

LVQ, MLP, and RBF

The accuracy obtained by LVQ, MLP, and RBF is 84%, 92%, and 87%, respectively

No

Yes

No

Ebrahimi and Mariano51

KUB CT scan slides from 39 patients

Image-based

Image processing techniques and geometry principles

Detect kidney stones with an accuracy of 84.61%

No

Yes

No

Kazemi and Mirroshandel52

Numeric characteristics from 936 patients

Handcrafted features

Ensemble learning model

Obtained an accuracy of 97.1%

No

Yes

No

Li and Elliot53

1874 CT KUB reports

Handcrafted features

NLP

An overall accuracy of 85% was attained by applying NLP to CT KUB reports

No

Yes

No

De Perrot et al.54

416 patient data

Handcrafted features

ML model

Using a machine learning model results in an overall accuracy of 85.1%

No

Yes

No

Kahani et al.55

KUB x-ray images

Image-based

LASSO with ML classifiers

Obtained an accuracy of 96%

No

Yes

No

Jungmann et al.56

1714 LDCT images

Image-based

NLP

Applying NLP to 1714 LCDT images achieves an overall accuracy of 72%

No

Yes

No

Annameti Rohith et al.57

114 ultrasound images

Image-based

Median and rank filters

When applied to 114 ultrasound images, the median filter gives an overall high accuracy of 86.4% compared to the rank filter (82.2%)

No

Yes

No

Suresh and Abhishek58

KUB ultrasound images

Image-based

Image processing techniques

The proposed model gives an accuracy of 92.57% for stone detection

No

Yes

No

Jendenber et al.59

NCCT images of 341 patients containing a distal ureteral stone, phlebolith, or both

Image-based

CNN

CNN differentiated stones and phlebolith with 92% accuracy

No

Yes

No

Cui et al.60

625 CT images

Image-based

DL and threshold-based model

Achieved an accuracy of 90.30%

No

Yes

No

Yildirim et al.61

1799 coronal CT images

Image-based

XResNet-50

Using CT images, XResNet-50 demonstrated an accuracy of 96.82%

No

Yes

No

Tsitsiflis et al.62

Medical data of 716 patients

Feature-based data

ANN

Achieved a testing accuracy of 81.43%

No

Yes

No

Valencia et al.63

CT scans of around 40 patients

Image-based

Image processing

Achieved an accuracy of 92.5% for stone detection

No

Yes

No