This document summarizes a scoping review of machine learning applications in seismic geophysics. It finds that machine learning, especially artificial neural networks and deep learning, has grown significantly in seismic data interpretation and processing tasks like rock property estimation, event picking, noise attenuation, and velocity analysis. Recent research has increasingly used convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks for seismic applications. Overall, the review concludes there has been an acute recent movement towards deep learning solutions for seismic data challenges posed by large, heterogeneous datasets.
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