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Accurate segmentation of polyps from colonoscopy images is crucial for the early diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. Most existing deep learning-based polyp segmentation methods adopt an Encoder-Decoder architecture, and some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Desheng Li , Chaoliang Liu , Zhiyong Xiao

Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer in the Western Hemisphere. The segmentation of colorectal and colorectal cancer by computed tomography is an urgent problem in medicine. Indeed, a system capable of solving this problem will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 I. M. Chernenkiy , Y. A. Drach , S. R. Mustakimova , V. V. Kazantseva , N. A. Ushakov , S. K. Efetov , M. V. Feldsherov

Colorectal cancer, largely arising from precursor lesions called polyps, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Current clinical standards require the resection and histopathological analysis of polyps due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Rodney LaLonde , Pujan Kandel , Concetto Spampinato , Michael B. Wallace , Ulas Bagci

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

Accurate segmentation of colonoscopic polyps is considered a fundamental step in medical image analysis and surgical interventions. Many recent studies have made improvements based on the encoder-decoder framework, which can effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Feiyu Chen , Haiping Ma , Weijia Zhang

Accurate polyp segmentation is of great importance for colorectal cancer diagnosis. However, even with a powerful deep neural network, there still exists three big challenges that impede the development of polyp segmentation. (i) Samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Yiwen Hu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui

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

Accurate polyp segmentation in colonoscopy is essential for cancer prevention but remains challenging due to: (1) high morphological variability (from flat to protruding lesions), (2) strong visual similarity to normal structures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , Alpha Alimamy Kamara , Zhongyi Zhang , David Chen , Albert Patrick Sankoh

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

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

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…

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

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

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

Precise segmentation of bladder walls and tumor regions is an essential step towards non-invasive identification of tumor stage and grade, which is critical for treatment decision and prognosis of patients with bladder cancer (BC). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Jose Dolz , Xiaopan Xu , Jerome Rony , Jing Yuan , Yang Liu , Eric Granger , Christian Desrosiers , Xi Zhang , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hongbing Lu

Polyp segmentation is of great importance in the early diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. Since polyps vary in their shape, size, color, and texture, accurate polyp segmentation is very challenging. One promising way to mitigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Zijin Yin , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Colonoscopy is widely recognised as the gold standard procedure for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC). Segmentation is valuable for two significant clinical applications, namely lesion detection and classification, providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Edward Sanderson , Bogdan J. Matuszewski

Early identification and removal of polyps can reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer. However, the diverse morphologies, complex backgrounds and often concealed nature of polyps make polyp segmentation in colonoscopy images highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yanguang Sun , Hengmin Zhang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

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

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. However, early diagnosis dramatically increases the chances of survival, for which it is crucial to identify the tumor in the body. Since its imaging uses high-resolution techniques,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Nisarg A. Shah , Divij Gupta , Romil Lodaya , Ujjwal Baid , Sanjay Talbar