Table 1 Some related works focus on feature selection and medical classification.

From: Orthopedic disease classification based on breadth-first search algorithm

References

Major contribution

Methodology

Data

Enhancement

Yao et al.5

Patient prioritization in emergency department

Deep learning (DL) with CNN, RNN, attention

864,043 patients over 5 years

0.3–0.5% improvement in predicting death and admission

Raita et al.6

Emergency department triage

Machine learning models with triage data

135,470 patients

Outperformed traditional ESI in predicting hospitalization, critical care, and mortality

Kwon et al.7

Emergency department patient outcome prediction

XGBoost with clinical data

Clinical data from the Korean National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS)

Achieved high AUROC (0.93) and P-R (0.26) for predicting mortality, critical care, and admission

Wang et al.8

Hand X-ray hairline finger detection

Deep neural network (WrisNet)

4346 hand X-rays

0.05 improvement in average precision (AP)

Pranata et al.9

Calcaneus fracture detection in CT scans

Deep learning (ResNet vs. VGG) with SURF, canny edge detection, and contour tracing

Computed tomography (CT) images for calcaneus fractures

ResNet performed similar to VGG in accuracy but better with DNN

Cheng et al.10

Pelvic X-ray analysis

Deep learning network (PelviXNet)

5204 pelvic X-rays

Achieved AUROC of 0.97, accuracy of 0.92, sensitivity of 0.90, and specificity of 0.93

Yaqoob et al.11

Cancer classification with gene expression data

SCACSA (combines SCA & CSA algorithms)

Breast cancer datasets

Achieved superior accuracy compared to previous methods

Joshi and Aziz12

Disease classification

Hybrid method (CSSMO & SMOCS) with deep learning

6 benchmark datasets

Outperformed deep learning and traditional machine learning models

Mahto et al.14

Disease classification

Feature selection (CSSMO) with deep learning

8 cancer datasets

More accurate than existing machine learning and deep learning methods

Saxena et al.15

Feature selection for COVID-19 prediction

MPCA

Comparative analysis on standard datasets

Achieved high accuracy, used fewer features, and converged quickly

Neggaz et al.16

Feature selection

MRFOSCA (combines MRFO & SCA algorithms)

Public repository datasets

Achieved better accuracy, used fewer features, and worked well on large datasets

Houssein et al.17

ECG signal classification for heart disease diagnosis

MRFO-SVM

MIT-BIH database

Achieved good results in classifying ECG signals

Hashim et al.18

Feature selection for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

mHGS (enhanced Hunger Games Search algorithm)

Voice recordings

Achieved better accuracy, used fewer features, and worked well for real-world tasks

Hussain et al.19

Feature selection

SCHHO

16 datasets with varying dimensions

Reduced features by up to 87% while maintaining high accuracy