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Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is an emergency procedure performed in civilian and combat casualty care settings to establish an airway. Objective and automated assessment of ETI skills is essential for the training and certification of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jean-Paul Ainam , Erim Yanik , Rahul Rahul , Taylor Kunkes , Lora Cavuoto , Brian Clemency , Kaori Tanaka , Matthew Hackett , Jack Norfleet , Suvranu De

Recording surgery in operating rooms is an essential task for education and evaluation of medical treatment. However, recording the desired targets, such as the surgery field, surgical tools, or doctor's hands, is difficult because the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Ryo Hachiuma , Tomohiro Shimizu , Hideo Saito , Hiroki Kajita , Yoshifumi Takatsume

Intestinal parasitic infection leads to several morbidities to humans worldwide, especially in tropical countries. The traditional diagnosis usually relies on manual analysis from microscopic images which is prone to human error due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Thanaphon Suwannaphong , Sawaphob Chavana , Sahapol Tongsom , Duangdao Palasuwan , Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

The Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is becoming a popular way of screening gastrointestinal system diseases and cancer. However, the time-consuming process in inspecting WCE data limits its applications and increases the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Xiaolu Zhang , Shiwan Zhao , Lingxi Xie

Capsule networks promise significant benefits over convolutional networks by storing stronger internal representations, and routing information based on the agreement between intermediate representations' projections. Despite this, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rodney Lalonde , Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

The emergence of capsule endoscopy has provided a means of capturing video of the small intestines without having to resort to an invasive procedure involving intubation. However, real-time video streaming to a receiver outside the body…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Zhengchang Kou , Rita J. Miller , Andrew C. Singer , Michael L. Oelze

3D reconstruction of endoscopic surgery scenes plays a vital role in enhancing scene perception, enabling AR visualization, and supporting context-aware decision-making in image-guided surgery. A critical yet challenging step in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Changhao Zhang , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarak I. Hoque

Endoscopy plays a major role in identifying any underlying abnormalities within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. There are multiple GI tract diseases that are life-threatening, such as precancerous lesions and other intestinal cancers. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Harshala Gammulle , Yubo Chen , Sridha Sridharan , Travis Klein , Clinton Fookes

Deep learning can predict depth maps and capsule ego-motion from capsule endoscopy videos, aiding in 3D scene reconstruction and lesion localization. However, the collisions of the capsule endoscopies within the gastrointestinal tract cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Long Bai , Beilei Cui , Liangyu Wang , Yanheng Li , Shilong Yao , Sishen Yuan , Yanan Wu , Yang Zhang , Max Q. -H. Meng , Zhen Li , Weiping Ding , Hongliang Ren

For early diagnosis of malignancies in the gastrointestinal tract, surveillance endoscopy is increasingly used to monitor abnormal tissue changes in serial examinations of the same patient. Despite successes with optical biopsy for in vivo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Menglong Ye , Edward Johns , Benjamin Walter , Alexander Meining , Guang-Zhong Yang

Localizing oneself during endoscopic procedures can be problematic due to the lack of distinguishable textures and landmarks, as well as difficulties due to the endoscopic device such as a limited field of view and challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gary Sarwin , Alessandro Carretta , Victor Staartjes , Matteo Zoli , Diego Mazzatenta , Luca Regli , Carlo Serra , Ender Konukoglu

This work presents EndoStreamDepth, a monocular depth estimation framework for endoscopic video streams. It provides accurate depth maps with sharp anatomical boundaries for each frame, temporally consistent predictions across frames, and…

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We aim at segmenting small organs (e.g., the pancreas) from abdominal CT scans. As the target often occupies a relatively small region in the input image, deep neural networks can be easily confused by the complex and variable background.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Qihang Yu , Lingxi Xie , Yan Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

This paper presents, for the first time, an image enhancement methodology designed to enhance the clarity of small intestinal villi in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. This method first separates the low-frequency and high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shaojie Zhang , Yinghui Wang , Peixuan Liu , Yukai Wang , Liangyi Huang , Mingfeng Wang , Ibragim. Atadjanov

Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Kaniz Fatema , Vaibhav Thakur , Emad A. Mohammed

Automated endoscopy video analysis is a challenging task in medical computer vision, with the primary objective of assisting surgeons during procedures. The difficulty arises from the complexity of surgical scenes and the lack of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Dominik Batić , Felix Holm , Ege Özsoy , Tobias Czempiel , Nassir Navab

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Generating accurate 3D reconstructions from endoscopic video is a promising avenue for longitudinal radiation-free analysis of sinus anatomy and surgical outcomes. Several methods for monocular reconstruction have been proposed, yielding…

Three-dimensional (3D) scene understanding in colonoscopy presents significant challenges that necessitate automated methods for accurate depth estimation. However, existing depth estimation models for endoscopy struggle with temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Romain Hardy , Tyler Berzin , Pranav Rajpurkar

Tubular structure segmentation in medical images, e.g., segmenting vessels in CT scans, serves as a vital step in the use of computers to aid in screening early stages of related diseases. But automatic tubular structure segmentation in CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yan Wang , Xu Wei , Fengze Liu , Jieneng Chen , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille