Table 8 Key characteristics and performance of SOTA for kidney disease classification.

From: An attention enhanced dilated bottleneck network for kidney disease classification

Ref

Algorithm

Method

Key characteristic

Accuracy (%)

7

UNet, SegNet, MobileNetV2, VGG16, and InceptionV3

Transfer Learning

Manual annotation of kidney CT images with expert validation and Grad-CAM visualisation for explainable model decisions

(VGG16) 99.48

12

DenseAUXNet201

Transfer Learning

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce dimensionality and feature selection techniques for optimisation.

90.63

13

XResNet 50 with SHAP

Transfer Learning

An early stopping function is employed to prevent overfitting.

97

14

AHDCNN and SVM

Deep Convolutional Neural Network

The model used a multi-layer deep belief network to identify irregular patterns in kidney disease data.

97.3

16

Deep Learning Neural Network, Inception V3

DLNN, Transfer Learning Model

The architecture balances depth and computational complexity.

91

18

VGG19 and Naive Inception

Transfer Learning Model

Additional layers were used to address the issues of vanishing gradients and overfitting.

99.25

20

RBCA-Net, ResUNet

Transfer Learning

Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) is utilised to extract spatial information.

82.79

24

Coarse to fine kidney segmentation

Convolutional Neural Network

Abnormality detection is performed using component analysis and a 2D convolutional neural network to correct the abnormal regions.

98.69

Proposed model

Dilated Bottleneck Attention-based Renal Network (DBAR-Net)

Proposed Model

Multi-Feature Fusion Technique

Two fold convolved layer normalization blocks, dual bottleneck attention modules, dilated convolved layer normalisation block

98.86