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Colorectal cancer is the third most aggressive cancer worldwide. Polyps, as the main biomarker of the disease, are detected, localized, and characterized through colonoscopy procedures. Nonetheless, during the examination, up to 25% of…

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Vision-language models and their adaptations to image segmentation tasks present enormous potential for producing highly accurate and interpretable results. However, implementations based on CLIP and BiomedCLIP are still lagging behind more…

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Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) is a cornerstone of digital pathology, offering detailed insights critical for diagnosis and research. Yet, the gigapixel size of WSIs imposes significant computational challenges, limiting their practical utility.…

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Automatic polyp detection and segmentation are highly desirable for colon screening due to polyp miss rate by physicians during colonoscopy, which is about 25%. However, this computerization is still an unsolved problem due to various…

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Accurate polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet achieving reliable boundary localization remains challenging due to low mucosal contrast, uneven illumination, and color similarity between polyps and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Haesung Oh , Jaesung Lee

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with polyp removal being an effective early screening method. However, navigating the colon for thorough polyp detection poses significant challenges. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xinwei Ju , Rema Daher , Razvan Caramalau , Baoru Huang , Danail Stoyanov , Francisco Vasconcelos

Colorectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers today, but it can be prevented through early detection of malignant polyps in the colon, primarily via colonoscopies. While this method has saved many lives, human error remains a…

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The automatic detection of White Blood Cells (WBC) still remains as an unsolved issue in medical imaging. The analysis of WBC images has engaged researchers from fields of medicine and computer vision alike. Since WBC can be approximated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-30 Erik Cuevas , Margarita Diaz , Miguel Manzanares , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

Superpixel decomposition methods are generally used as a pre-processing step to speed up image processing tasks. They group the pixels of an image into homogeneous regions while trying to respect existing contours. For all state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Nicolas Papadakis

Automatic analysis of colonoscopy images has been an active field of research motivated by the importance of early detection of precancerous polyps. However, detecting polyps during the live examination can be challenging due to various…

Colorectal polyp segmentation is critical for early detection of colorectal cancer, yet weak and low contrast boundaries significantly limit automated accuracy. Existing deep models either blur fine edge details or rely on handcrafted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Zhe Yee Tan , Ashwaq Qasem

Accurate polyp segmentation in colonoscopy is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet real-world clinical environments pose persistent challenges such as motion blur, specular reflections, and illumination instability. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhuoyu Wu , Wenhui Ou , Lexi Zhang , Pei-Sze Tan , Dongjun Wu , Junhe Zhao , Wenqi Fang , Raphaël C. -W. Phan

Colorectal polyps are important precursors to colon cancer, the third most common cause of cancer mortality for both men and women. It is a disease where early detection is of crucial importance. Colonoscopy is commonly used for early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ahmed Mohammed , Sule Yildirim , Ivar Farup , Marius Pedersen , Øistein Hovde

Colorectal cancer is among the most prevalent cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Detection and removal of polyps at an early stage can help reduce mortality and even help in spreading over adjacent organs. Early polyp detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the first cause of death in many countries. CRC originates from a small clump of cells on the lining of the colon called polyps, which over time might grow and become malignant. Early detection and removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Truong Dang , Thanh Nguyen , John McCall , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps is an important principle for determining the risk of colorectal cancer and future rates of surveillance for patients. This characterization is time-intensive, requires years of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Bruno Korbar , Andrea M. Olofson , Allen P. Miraflor , Katherine M. Nicka , Matthew A. Suriawinata , Lorenzo Torresani , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

Although wireless capsule endoscopy is the preferred modality for diagnosis and assessment of small bowel diseases, the poor camera resolution is a substantial limitation for both subjective and automated diagnostics. Enhanced-resolution…

Colorectal cancer (CRC), which frequently originates from initially benign polyps, remains a significant contributor to global cancer-related mortality. Early and accurate detection of these polyps via colonoscopy is crucial for CRC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Ziyu Zhou , Wenyuan Shen , Chang Liu

Detecting and segmenting polyps is crucial for expediting the diagnosis of colon cancer. This is a challenging task due to the large variations of polyps in color, texture, and lighting conditions, along with subtle differences between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Krushi Patel , Fengjun Li , Guanghui Wang

In this study, toward addressing the over-confident outputs of existing artificial intelligence-based colorectal cancer (CRC) polyp classification techniques, we propose a confidence-calibrated residual neural network. Utilizing a novel…

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