Table 1

Summary of ML techniques applied in medical field

ML techniqueMedical field appliedIllustrative reference
Supervised learningUnrecognized diabetes detectionJohanson and Huang (2022) 
Ischemic heart disease detectionHani and Ahmad (2022) 
Mortality risk estimation in intensive care unitsBouvarel and Carrat (2022) 
Unsupervised learningText mining, literature retrievalAhmed, Mohamed, Zeeshan, and Dong (2020) 
Development of EMRsShinozaki (2019) 
Reinforcement learningPandemic control and managementvan der Schaar et al. (2020) 
Ensemble learningNosocomial infection predictionWiens et al. (2016) 
Neural networksBreast cancer treatment suggestionsZachariah et al. (2022) 
Surgery, endoscope manipulation, radiography diagnosisChar, Shah, and Magnus (2018) 
Microsurgery, laparoscopic quality evaluationPorpiglia et al. (2020) 
ML in postoperative process planningCrowson et al. (2020) 
Generative pre-trained transformer 3 (GPT-3)Language translation, chatbots, text completionAli et al. (2023) 
AlphaFoldProtein structure prediction, targeted treatment developmentNussinov, Zhang, Liu, and Jang (2022) 
Reinforcement learningRobotics, game-playing AI, autonomous systemsBangui and Buhnova (2021) 
Generative adversarial networks (GANs)Image, video and music generationSharma et al. (2022) 
Transformer networksLanguage translation, question answering, text classificationCaldarini, Jaf, and McGarry (2022) 
Federated learningPrivacy-preserving machine learning on decentralized data sourcesZhang et al. (2023) 

Source(s): Authors’ elaboration

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