Artificial intelligence for the early detection of colorectal cancer: A comprehensive review of its advantages and misconceptions

Table 1 Comparison between different types of machine learning approaches used in studies focused on polyp detection and classification

Characteristics	Support vector machine	Random forest	Decision trees	Deep neural networks	Context	Ref.
High dimensional data	High	High	Moderate	High	Performance	Shen et al[12]; Goodfellow et al[26]
Overlapped classes	Low	Low	Low	High
Imbalance datasets	Moderate	High	Low	Moderate
Non-linear data	Moderate	High	Moderate	High
Larger dataset	Moderate1	High1	Low	High
Outliers	Moderate	Moderate	Low	High	Robustness	Shen et al[12]; Yu et al[20]
Over-fitting	Moderate	High	Low	High
Handling of missing values	Poor	Good	Good	Good
Reproducibility	High	High	High	Moderate	Complexity	Yu et al[20]
Interpretability	Moderate	Moderate	High	Low

¹Consider that it leads to slow response time.