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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…

Colonoscopy is a gold standard procedure but is highly operator-dependent. Efforts have been made to automate the detection and segmentation of polyps, a precancerous precursor, to effectively minimize missed rate. Widely used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Umapada Pal , Sharib Ali

Accurate polyp delineation in colonoscopy is crucial for assisting in diagnosis, guiding interventions, and treatments. However, current deep-learning approaches fall short due to integrity deficiency, which often manifests as missing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Ziqiang Chen , Kang Wang , Yun Liu

Given the close association between colorectal cancer and polyps, the diagnosis and identification of colorectal polyps play a critical role in the detection and surgical intervention of colorectal cancer. In this context, the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuefeng Wei , Xuan Zhou

Automatic detection of colonic polyps is still an unsolved problem due to the large variation of polyps in terms of shape, texture, size, and color, and the existence of various polyp-like mimics during colonoscopy. In this study, we apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Younghak Shin , Hemin Ali Qadir , Lars Aabakken , Jacob Bergsland , Ilangko Balasingham

Polyp segmentation is a crucial step towards computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, most of the polyp segmentation methods require pixel-wise annotated datasets. Annotated datasets are tedious and time-consuming to produce,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Guangyu Ren , Michalis Lazarou , Jing Yuan , Tania Stathaki

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

Automatic detection of polyps is challenging because different polyps vary greatly, while the changes between polyps and their analogues are small. The state-of-the-art methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Jianwei Xu , Ran Zhao , Yizhou Yu , Qingwei Zhang , Xianzhang Bian , Jun Wang , Zhizheng Ge , Dahong Qian

Accurate and robust polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection and for computer-aided diagnosis. While convolutional neural network-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based U-Net variants have achieved strong performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fabian Vazquez , Jose A. Nuñez , Diego Adame , Alissen Moreno , Augustin Zhan , Huimin Li , Jinghao Yang , Haoteng Tang , Bin Fu , Pengfei Gu

Current polyp detection methods from colonoscopy videos use exclusively normal (i.e., healthy) training images, which i) ignore the importance of temporal information in consecutive video frames, and ii) lack knowledge about the polyps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Yu Tian , Guansong Pang , Fengbei Liu , Yuyuan Liu , Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Johan W Verjans , Gustavo Carneiro

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant global health concern, and early detection through screening plays a critical role in reducing mortality. While deep learning models have shown promise in improving polyp detection, classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jia Yu , Yan Zhu , Peiyao Fu , Tianyi Chen , Junbo Huang , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Zhihua Wang , Fei Wu , Shuo Wang , Xian Yang

Colorectal cancer from the appearance of polyps that can be benign or malignant is one of the most fatal diseases in the world. To find these polyps in patients, colonoscopy is performed, which is a very efficient technique in this case.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Marcus V. L. Branch , Adriele S. Carvalho

Detecting polyps through colonoscopy is an important task in medical image segmentation, which provides significant assistance and reference value for clinical surgery. However, accurate segmentation of polyps is a challenging task due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianhao Xie , Ruofan Liao , Ziang Zhang , Sida Yi , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

In medical imaging, efficient segmentation of colon polyps plays a pivotal role in minimally invasive solutions for colorectal cancer. This study introduces a novel approach employing two parallel encoder branches within a network for polyp…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Malik Abdul Manan , Feng Jinchao , Shahzad Ahmed , Abdul Raheem

Accurate polyp segmentation during colonoscopy is critical for the early detection of colorectal cancer and still remains challenging due to significant size, shape, and color variations, and the camouflaged nature of polyps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shivanshu Agnihotri , Snehashis Majhi , Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Debesh Jha

Polyp segmentation is a key aspect of colorectal cancer prevention, enabling early detection and guiding subsequent treatments. Intelligent diagnostic tools, including deep learning solutions, are widely explored to streamline and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Zhikai Li , Murong Yi , Ali Uneri , Sihan Niu , Craig Jones

Colorectal cancer is one of fatal cancer worldwide. Colonoscopy is the standard treatment for examination, localization, and removal of colorectal polyps. However, it has been shown that the miss-rate of colorectal polyps during colonoscopy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Nikhil Kumar Tomar

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common types of cancer with a high mortality rate. Colonoscopy is the preferred procedure for CRC screening and has proven to be effective in reducing CRC mortality. Thus, a reliable computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Kaidong Li , Mohammad I. Fathan , Krushi Patel , Tianxiao Zhang , Cuncong Zhong , Ajay Bansal , Amit Rastogi , Jean S. Wang , Guanghui Wang

In colonoscopy, 80% of the missed polyps could be detected with the help of Deep Learning models. In the search for algorithms capable of addressing this challenge, foundation models emerge as promising candidates. Their zero-shot or…

Pathologic diagnosis is a critical phase in deciding the optimal treatment procedure for dealing with colorectal cancer (CRC). Colonic polyps, precursors to CRC, can pathologically be classified into two major types: adenomatous and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Vanshali Sharma , Debesh Jha , M. K. Bhuyan , Pradip K. Das , Ulas Bagci