Table 1 Summary of brain stroke diagnosis studies using machine learning and deep learning (2024–2025).

From: An effective brain stroke diagnosis strategy based on feature extraction and hybrid classifier

Author

Year

Method

Dataset

Accuracy/performance

Dataset source/notes

Abdi et al.

2025

CNN with interpretability (LIME, saliency maps)

2501 CT images (internal), 9900 (external)

97.2% (internal), 89.73% (external)

Internal + external datasets

Yu et al.

2025

Multimodal DL (facial motion + speech)

Video data (CPSS/FAST emulation)

Sensitivity = 93.12%, Accuracy = 79.27%

Simulated/emulated dataset

Dhakan et al.

2025

Ensemble ML model on structured data

5110 patient records

Outperformed individual classifiers

Structured tabular data

DeepRETStroke

2025

DL on retinal fundus images

895,000 + retinal images

AUC = 0.901

Public dataset (retinal images)

Abulfaraj et al.

2024

SqueezeNet v1.1, MobileNet V3-Small, CatBoost

Brain Stroke CT Image Dataset

99.1%

Public (Kaggle)

Sabir and Ashraf

2024

DCNN model with feature fusion

Brain CT images

96.5%

Not specified

Dubey et al.

2024

Boosting algorithms (GB, ADB, XGB), explainable via LIME and SHAP

Brain CT images

96.97% (train), 92.13% (test)

Not specified

Polamuri et al.

2024

Enhanced CNNs (DenseNet121, ResNet50, VGG16)

MRI images

Outperformed baseline CNNs

Not specified

Khan et al.

2024

Survey of CNN, transformer, and hybrid models for segmentation

CT and MRI images

Qualitative review

Review paper