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Colorectal cancer is a one of the highest causes of cancer-related death, especially in men. Polyps are one of the main causes of colorectal cancer and early diagnosis of polyps by colonoscopy could result in successful treatment. Diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-02 Mojtaba Akbari , Majid Mohrekesh , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Segmentation of findings in the gastrointestinal tract is a challenging but also an important task which is an important building stone for sufficient automatic decision support systems. In this work, we present our solution for the Medico…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Vajira Thambawita , Steven Hicks , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler

Colonoscopy videos provide richer information in polyp segmentation for rectal cancer diagnosis. However, the endoscope's fast moving and close-up observing make the current methods suffer from large spatial incoherence and continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qiang Hu , Zhenyu Yi , Ying Zhou , Fang Peng , Mei Liu , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang

Colonoscopy is a vital tool for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer, which is one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality globally; hence, it is deemed an essential technique for the prevention and early detection of colorectal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Akingbola Oluwapemiisin , Amalahu Chetachi , Adeniran Opeyemi , Fahmi Khalifa , Md Mahmudur Rahman

Recent leading approaches to semantic segmentation rely on deep convolutional networks trained with human-annotated, pixel-level segmentation masks. Such pixel-accurate supervision demands expensive labeling effort and limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Jifeng Dai , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Background and Objective: Colorectal cancer prevention relies on early detection of polyps during colonoscopy. Existing public datasets, such as CVC-ClinicDB and Kvasir-SEG, provide valuable benchmarks but are limited by small sample sizes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Ridoy Chandra Shil , Ragib Abid , Tasnia Binte Mamun , Samiul Based Shuvo , Masfique Ahmed Bhuiyan , Jahid Ferdous

Efficient polyp segmentation in healthcare plays a critical role in enabling early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, the segmentation of polyps presents numerous challenges, including the intricate distribution of backgrounds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nhat-Tan Bui , Dinh-Hieu Hoang , Quang-Thuc Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Ngan Le

Polyps are early cancer indicators, so assessing occurrences of polyps and their removal is critical. They are observed through a colonoscopy screening procedure that generates a stream of video frames. Segmenting polyps in their natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ziang Xu , Jens Rittscher , Sharib Ali

Polyp segmentation is a critical step in colorectal cancer detection, yet it remains challenging due to the diverse shapes, sizes, and low contrast boundaries of polyps in medical imaging. In this work, we propose a novel framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fatemeh Salahi Chashmi , Roya Sotoudeh

Polyp segmentation plays a vital role in accurately locating polyps at an early stage, which holds significant clinical importance for the prevention of colorectal cancer. Various polyp segmentation methods have been developed using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yiming Zhao , Tao Zhou , Yunqi Gu , Yi Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Ye Wu , Huazhu Fu

In the realm of modern diagnostic technology, video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is a standout for its high efficacy and non-invasive nature in diagnosing various gastrointestinal (GI) conditions, including obscure bleeding. Importantly, for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hechen Li , Yanan Wu , Long Bai , An Wang , Tong Chen , Hongliang Ren

Accurate segmentation of polyps from colonoscopy videos is of great significance to polyp treatment and early prevention of colorectal cancer. However, it is challenging due to the difficulties associated with modelling long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Geng Chen , Junqing Yang , Xiaozhou Pu , Ge-Peng Ji , Huan Xiong , Yongsheng Pan , Hengfei Cui , Yong Xia

Multi-centre colonoscopy images from various medical centres exhibit distinct complicating factors and overlays that impact the image content, contingent on the specific acquisition centre. Existing Deep Segmentation networks struggle to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Valentina Corbetta , Regina Beets-Tan , Wilson Silva

Polyp segmentation plays a crucial role in the early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, obtaining accurate segmentations often requires labor-intensive annotations and specialized models. Recently, Meta AI Research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Most polyp segmentation methods use CNNs as their backbone, leading to two key issues when exchanging information between the encoder and decoder: 1) taking into account the differences in contribution between different-level features and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Bo Dong , Wenhai Wang , Deng-Ping Fan , Jinpeng Li , Huazhu Fu , Ling Shao

Unlike existing fully-supervised approaches, we rethink colorectal polyp segmentation from an out-of-distribution perspective with a simple but effective self-supervised learning approach. We leverage the ability of masked autoencoders --…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Ge-Peng Ji , Jing Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Huan Xiong , Nick Barnes

Polyp segmentation plays a pivotal role in colorectal cancer diagnosis. Recently, the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has introduced unprecedented potential for polyp segmentation, leveraging its powerful pre-training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Huiqian Li , Dingwen Zhang , Jieru Yao , Longfei Han , Zhongyu Li , Junwei Han

Colorectal cancer is among the most common malignancies and can develop from high-risk colon polyps. Colonoscopy is an effective screening tool to detect and remove polyps, especially in the case of precancerous lesions. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Dinh Viet Sang , Tran Quang Chung , Phan Ngoc Lan , Dao Viet Hang , Dao Van Long , Nguyen Thi Thuy

Colonoscopy is still the main method of detection and segmentation of colonic polyps, and recent advancements in deep learning networks such as U-Net, ResUNet, Swin-UNet, and PraNet have made outstanding performance in polyp segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Madan Baduwal

Polyp segmentation is vital for early colorectal cancer detection, yet traditional fully supervised methods struggle with morphological variability and domain shifts, requiring frequent retraining. Additionally, reliance on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xinyu Mao , Xiaohan Xing , Fei Meng , Jianbang Liu , Fan Bai , Qiang Nie , Max Meng