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Colon cancer also known as Colorectal cancer, is one of the most malignant types of cancer worldwide. Early-stage detection of colon cancer is highly crucial to prevent its deterioration. This research presents a hybrid multi-scale deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Automatic segmentation methods of polyps is crucial for assisting doctors in colorectal polyp screening and cancer diagnosis. Despite the progress made by existing methods, polyp segmentation faces several challenges: (1) small-sized polyps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wei Wang , Feng Jiang , Xin Wang

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

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

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality, underscoring the importance of timely polyp detection and diagnosis. While deep learning models have improved optical-assisted diagnostics, they often demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ruijie Yang , Yan Zhu , Peiyao Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Xian Yang , Shuo Wang

Colonoscopic polyp diagnosis is pivotal for early colorectal cancer detection, yet traditional automated reporting suffers from inconsistencies and hallucinations due to the scarcity of high-quality multimodal medical data. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tianyu Zhou , Junyi Tang , Zehui Li , Dahong Qian , Suncheng Xiang

Numerous studies have demonstrated the strong performance of Vision Transformer (ViT)-based methods across various computer vision tasks. However, ViT models often struggle to effectively capture high-frequency components in images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jingjing Ren , Xiaoyong Zhang , Lina Zhang

We present a computer-aided detection algorithm for polyps in optical colonoscopy images. Polyps are the precursors to colon cancer. In the US alone, more than 14 million optical colonoscopies are performed every year, mostly to screen for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Saad Nadeem , Arie Kaufman

Identification of precancerous polyps during routine colonoscopy screenings is vital for their excision, lowering the risk of developing colorectal cancer. Advanced deep learning algorithms enable precise adenoma classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Aqsa Sultana , Nordin Abouzahra , Ahmed Rahu , Brian Shula , Brandon Combs , Derrick Forchetti , Theus Aspiras , Vijayan K. Asari

Deep learning based neural networks have gained popularity for a variety of biomedical imaging applications. In the last few years several works have shown the use of these methods for colon cancer detection and the early results have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Chandana Raju , Sumedh Vilas Datar , Kushala Hari , Kavin Vijay , Suma Ningappa

Recently, Meta AI Research releases a general Segment Anything Model (SAM), which has demonstrated promising performance in several segmentation tasks. As we know, polyp segmentation is a fundamental task in the medical imaging field, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Ye Wu , Chen Gong

Feature pyramids have been widely adopted in convolutional neural networks and transformers for tasks in medical image segmentation. However, existing models generally focus on the Encoder-side Transformer for feature extraction. We further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Wenzhen Dong , Jingyu Wu

Visualizing colonoscopy is crucial for medical auxiliary diagnosis to prevent undetected polyps in areas that are not fully observed. Traditional feature-based and depth-based reconstruction approaches usually end up with undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zhenhua Wu , Yanlin Jin , Liangdong Qiu , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

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

Precise and real-time detection of gastrointestinal polyps during endoscopic procedures is crucial for early diagnosis and prevention of colorectal cancer. This work presents EndoSight AI, a deep learning architecture developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Daniel Cavadia

Both local details and global context are crucial in medical image segmentation, and effectively integrating them is essential for achieving high accuracy. However, existing mainstream methods based on CNN-Transformer hybrid architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Dayu Tan , Zhenpeng Xu , Yansen Su , Xin Peng , Chunhou Zheng , Weimin Zhong

Automatic polyp segmentation has proven to be immensely helpful for endoscopy procedures, reducing the missing rate of adenoma detection for endoscopists while increasing efficiency. However, classifying a polyp as being neoplasm or not and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Phan Ngoc Lan , Nguyen Sy An , Dao Viet Hang , Dao Van Long , Tran Quang Trung , Nguyen Thi Thuy , Dinh Viet Sang

Colorectal polyps are abnormal tissues growing on the intima of the colon or rectum with a high risk of developing into colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Early detection and removal of colon polyps via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Xinzi Sun , Dechun Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Zinan Xiong , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu , Xiaowei Liu , Shuijiao Chen

Automated polyp counting in colonoscopy is a crucial step toward automated procedure reporting and quality control, aiming to enhance the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy screening. Counting polyps in a procedure involves detecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Luca Parolari , Andrea Cherubini , Lamberto Ballan , Carlo Biffi

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