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Colonic polyps are well-recognized precursors to colorectal cancer (CRC), typically detected during colonoscopy. However, the variability in appearance, location, and size of these polyps complicates their detection and removal, leading to…

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…

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Colorectal polyps are generally benign alterations that, if not identified promptly and managed successfully, can progress to cancer and cause affectations on the colon mucosa, known as adenocarcinoma. Today advances in Deep Learning have…

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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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Hemin Ali Qadir , Younghak Shin , Johannes Solhusvik , Jacob Bergsland , Lars Aabakken , Ilangko Balasingham

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

Traditional segmentation methods for colonic polyps are mainly designed based on low-level features. They could not accurately extract the location of small colonic polyps. Although the existing deep learning methods can improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuanyuan Wang , Zhaohong Deng , Qiongdan Lou , Shudong Hu , Kup-sze Choi , Shitong Wang

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Colorectal polyps that grow on the intima of the colon or rectum is an important precursor for CRC. Currently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Xinzi Sun , Pengfei Zhang , Dechun Wang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

More than 90\% of colorectal cancer is gradually transformed from colorectal polyps. In clinical practice, precise polyp segmentation provides important information in the early detection of colorectal cancer. Therefore, automatic polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Segmentation of histopathology sections is an ubiquitous requirement in digital pathology and due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over standard image processing…

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide, with gastrointestinal (GI) polyps serving as critical precursors according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Early and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Akwasi Asare , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Ulas Bagci

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

Computer-aided detection, localisation, and segmentation methods can help improve colonoscopy procedures. Even though many methods have been built to tackle automatic detection and segmentation of polyps, benchmarking of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Debesh Jha , Sharib Ali , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag D. Johansen , Jens Rittscher , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Accurate detection of colorectal cancer and early prevention heavily rely on precise polyp identification during gastrointestinal colonoscopy. Due to limited data, many current state-of-the-art deep learning methods for polyp segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Ankush Gajanan Arudkar , Bernard J. E. Evans

Accurate computer-aided polyp detection and segmentation during colonoscopy examinations can help endoscopists resect abnormal tissue and thereby decrease chances of polyps growing into cancer. Towards developing a fully automated model for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Debesh Jha , Pia H. Smedsrud , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Thomas de Lange , Pal Halvorsen , Havard D. Johansen

Accurate endoscopic image segmentation on the polyps is critical for early colorectal cancer detection. However, this task remains challenging due to low contrast with surrounding mucosa, specular highlights, and indistinct boundaries. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Juntong Fan , Shuyi Fan , Debesh Jha , Changsheng Fang , Tieyong Zeng , Hengyong Yu , Dayang Wang

Polyps are well-known cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy. However, variability in their size, location, and surface largely affect identification, localisation, and characterisation. Moreover, colonoscopic surveillance and removal…

Early detection of colorectal polyps is of utmost importance for their treatment and for colorectal cancer prevention. Computer vision techniques have the potential to aid professionals in the diagnosis stage, where colonoscopies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Enric Moreu , Eric Arazo , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

Colonoscopy is a common and practical method for detecting and treating polyps. Segmenting polyps from colonoscopy image is useful for diagnosis and surgery progress. Nevertheless, achieving excellent segmentation performance is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Van Thong Huynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

Polyp segmentation is still known as a difficult problem due to the large variety of polyp shapes, scanning and labeling modalities. This prevents deep learning model to generalize well on unseen data. However, Transformer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mai Nguyen , Tung Thanh Bui , Quan Van Nguyen , Thanh Tung Nguyen , Toan Van Pham