Deep learning applications in osteosarcoma MRI: A systematic review of recent advances in AI-based osteosarcoma diagnosis
Abstract
Primary malignant bone tumours of the skeleton have a great diversity in their biological behaviour, and the most common in adolescence is osteosarcoma for which the diagnosis and therapeutic management are both a challenge. The use of machine and deep learning in image analysis for MRI, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) to diagnose osteosarcoma has shown major improvements recently. This systematic review is performed according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines, and it comprises a critical analysis of 38 peer-reviewed articles from 2020 to 2025, which address the various aspects of tumour segmentation, classification, and prognosis. The methodological mapping revealed seven main categories that included numerous examples of radiomics (n = 8) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs, n = 6), as well as vision transformers and multimodal architectures for emerging technologies (n = 5 each). A quantitative evaluation of the segmentation performance showed that Multimodal achieved the best spatial overlap with an average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 94.7% (range: 94.5-94.9%), while CNN of standard size was comparable, Lightweight networks had a DSC between 91.4 and 99.4% with an average of 91.9% and Vision Transformers a range of 90.5-94.9% with an average of 92.1%. By contrast, the performance gap among the Attention Mechanisms was greatest with a mean of 87.67% (64.6-98.5%), while the lowest was the mean 85.7% (81.6-89.8%) for…
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