“…For the sake of brevity, we denote the references for corresponding topics in the form of numbers in the bracket. Deep learning based segmentation model: segmentation building blocks (1) [19], [20], RNNs (2) [21], GNNs (3) [22], attention (4,5) [23], [24], Transformer (6,7) [25], [26], multi-scale (8,9) [27], [28], boundary correction block (10,11) [6], [29]; architecture, Encoder-Decoder (12) [1], detection based segmentation architecture (13)(14)(15) [19], [27], [30]- [35], generative models (16) [36]. Loss function: segmentation task oriented (17,18) [37], [38]; generative models oriented (16) [36]; supervision strategies oriented (19,20) [39], [40]; transfer learning oriented (21)(22)(23)(24) [41]-…”