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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major global cause of cancer-related deaths, with early polyp detection and removal during colonoscopy being crucial for prevention. While deep learning methods have shown promise in polyp segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fiseha B. Tesema , Alejandro Guerra Manzanares , Tianxiang Cui , Qian Zhang , Moses Solomon , Sean He

During image-guided procedures, real-time image segmentation is often required. This demands lightweight AI models that can operate on resource-constrained devices. One important use case is endoscopy-guided colonoscopy, where polyps must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 M Iffat Hossain , Laura Brattain

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a significant cause of cancer-related mortality, despite the widespread implementation of prophylactic initiatives aimed at detecting and removing precancerous polyps. Although screening effectively reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ahmed Rahu , Brian Shula , Brandon Combs , Aqsa Sultana , Surendra P. Singh , Vijayan K. Asari , Derrick Forchetti

Detecting and segmenting polyps is crucial for expediting the diagnosis of colon cancer. This is a challenging task due to the large variations of polyps in color, texture, and lighting conditions, along with subtle differences between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Krushi Patel , Fengjun Li , Guanghui Wang

Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Al-Akhir Nayan , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Yuji Iwahori

Colon polyps are considered important precursors for colorectal cancer. Automatic segmentation of colon polyps can significantly reduce the misdiagnosis of colon cancer and improve physician annotation efficiency. While many methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yuheng Li , Mingzhe Hu , Xiaofeng Yang

Colorectal polyp segmentation is critical for early detection of colorectal cancer, yet weak and low contrast boundaries significantly limit automated accuracy. Existing deep models either blur fine edge details or rely on handcrafted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Zhe Yee Tan , Ashwaq Qasem

It is a challenge to segment the location and size of rectal cancer tumours through deep learning. In this paper, in order to improve the ability of extracting suffi-cient feature information in rectal tumour segmentation, attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Hongwei Wu , Junlin Wang , Xin Wang , Hui Nan , Yaxin Wang , Haonan Jing , Kaixuan Shi

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

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

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

Efficient and precise classification of histological cell nuclei is of utmost importance due to its potential applications in the field of medical image analysis. It would facilitate the medical practitioners to better understand and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 S H Shabbeer Basha , Soumen Ghosh , Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Snehasis Mukherjee

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

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

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

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

PET-CT lesion segmentation is challenging due to noise sensitivity, small and variable lesion morphology, and interference from physiological high-metabolic signals. Current mainstream approaches follow the practice of one network solving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Xinglong Liang , Jiaju Huang , Luyi Han , Tianyu Zhang , Xin Wang , Yuan Gao , Chunyao Lu , Lishan Cai , Tao Tan , Ritse Mann

Early detection, accurate segmentation, classification and tracking of polyps during colonoscopy are critical for preventing colorectal cancer. Many existing deep-learning-based methods for analyzing colonoscopic videos either require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Anwesa Choudhuri , Zhongpai Gao , Meng Zheng , Benjamin Planche , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

Detection and diagnosis of colon polyps are key to preventing colorectal cancer. Recent evidence suggests that AI-based computer-aided detection (CADe) and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems can enhance endoscopists' performance and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Carlo Biffi , Giulio Antonelli , Sebastian Bernhofer , Cesare Hassan , Daizen Hirata , Mineo Iwatate , Andreas Maieron , Pietro Salvagnini , Andrea Cherubini

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the top three malignant tumor types in terms of morbidity and mortality. Histopathological images are the gold standard for diagnosing colon cancer. Cellular nuclei instance segmentation and classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Liangrui Pan , Lian Wang , Zhichao Feng , Zhujun Xu , Liwen Xu , Shaoliang Peng