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Review
. 2020 Sep 28;26(36):5408-5419.
doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i36.5408.

Artificial intelligence in gastric cancer: Application and future perspectives

Peng-Hui Niu  1 , Lu-Lu Zhao  1 , Hong-Liang Wu  2 , Dong-Bing Zhao  1 , Ying-Tai Chen  3
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Review

Artificial intelligence in gastric cancer: Application and future perspectives

Peng-Hui Niu et al. World J Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Gastric cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality across the globe, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 40%. In recent years, several applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged in the gastric cancer field based on its efficient computational power and learning capacities, such as image-based diagnosis and prognosis prediction. AI-assisted diagnosis includes pathology, endoscopy, and computerized tomography, while researchers in the prognosis circle focus on recurrence, metastasis, and survival prediction. In this review, a comprehensive literature search was performed on articles published up to April 2020 from the databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. Thereby the current status of AI-applications was systematically summarized in gastric cancer. Moreover, future directions that target this field were also analyzed to overcome the risk of overfitting AI models and enhance their accuracy as well as the applicability in clinical practice.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Deep learning; Gastric cancer; Image-based diagnosis; Machine learning; Prognosis prediction.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript.

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