In this paper, artificial intelligence (AI) and the ideas of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are introduced gradually. Applying ML techniques like deep neural network (DNN) models has grown in popularity in recent years due to the complexity of healthcare data, which has been increasing. To extract hidden patterns and some other crucial information from the enormous amount of health data, which traditional analytics are unable to locate in a fair amount of time, ML approaches offer cost-effective and productive models for data analysis. We are encouraged to pursue this work because of the quick advancements made in DL approaches. The idea of DL is developing from its theoretical foundations to its applications. Modern ML models that are widely utilized in academia and industry, mostly in image classification and natural language processing, including DNN. Medical imaging technologies, medical healthcare data processing, medical disease diagnostics, and general healthcare all stand to greatly benefit from these developments. We have two goals: first, to conduct a survey on DL techniques for medical pictures, and second, to develop DL-based approaches for image classification. This paper is mainly targeted towards understanding the feasibility and different processes that could be adopted for medical image classification; for this, we perform a systematic literature review. A review of various existing techniques in terms of medical image classification indicates some shortcomings that have an impact on the performance of the whole model. This study aims to explore the existing DL approaches, challenges, brief comparisons, and applicability of different medical image processing are also studied and presented. The adoption of fewer datasets, poor use of temporal information, and reduced classification accuracy all contribute to the lower performance model, which is addressed. The study provides a clear explanation of contemporary developments, cutting-edge learning tools, and platforms for DL techniques.