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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

Colorectal cancer ranks among the most common and deadly cancers, emphasizing the need for effective early detection and treatment. To address the limitations of traditional colonoscopy, including high miss rates due to polyp variability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Arshia Yousefi Nezhad , Helia Aghaei , Hedieh Sajedi

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

It is helpful in preventing colorectal cancer to detect and treat polyps in the gastrointestinal tract early. However, there have been few studies to date on designing polyp image classification networks that balance efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Wei Wang , Jixing He , Xin Wang

Polyp segmentation has recently garnered significant attention, and multiple methods have been formulated to achieve commendable outcomes. However, these techniques often confront difficulty when working with the complex polyp foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Nhat-Tan Bui , Trong-Hieu Nguyen Mau , Minh-Van Nguyen , Hai-Minh Phan , Minh-Triet Tran , Hai-Dang Nguyen

Colorectal polyps are important precursors to colon cancer, the third most common cause of cancer mortality for both men and women. It is a disease where early detection is of crucial importance. Colonoscopy is commonly used for early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ahmed Mohammed , Sule Yildirim , Ivar Farup , Marius Pedersen , Øistein Hovde

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

Deep learning in gastrointestinal endoscopy can assist to improve clinical performance and be helpful to assess lesions more accurately. To this extent, semantic segmentation methods that can perform automated real-time delineation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Sharib Ali , Michael A. Riegler , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Thomas de Lange , Pål Halvorsen

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

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

Polyps represent an early sign of the development of Colorectal Cancer. The standard procedure for their detection consists of colonoscopic examination of the gastrointestinal tract. However, the wide range of polyp shapes and visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Adrian Galdran , Gustavo Carneiro , Miguel A. González Ballester

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

Medical image segmentation requires large annotated datasets, creating a significant bottleneck for clinical applications. While few-shot segmentation methods can learn from minimal examples, existing approaches demonstrate suboptimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Gao

Manually inspecting polyps from a colonoscopy for colorectal cancer or performing a biopsy on skin lesions for skin cancer are time-consuming, laborious, and complex procedures. Automatic medical image segmentation aims to expedite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Akib Mohammed Khan , Alif Ashrafee , Fahim Shahriar Khan , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Polyps in the colon are widely known cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy. Whilst most polyps are benign, the polyp's number, size and surface structure are linked to the risk of colon cancer. Several methods have been developed to…

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

Medical image segmentation can provide detailed information for clinical analysis which can be useful for scenarios where the detailed location of a finding is important. Knowing the location of disease can play a vital role in treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Dag Johansen , Umapada Pal

Cancer is a disease that occurs as a result of the uncontrolled division and proliferation of cells. Colon cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world. Polyps that can be seen in the large intestine can cause cancer if not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Tugberk Erol , Duygu Sarikaya

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer diagnosed in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among both genders. Notably, CRC is the leading cause of cancer in younger men less than 50…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Koushik Biswas , Tyler M. Berzin , Rajesh Keswani , Michael Wallace , Ulas Bagci

Automatic polyp segmentation is crucial for effective diagnosis and treatment in colonoscopy images. Traditional methods encounter significant challenges in accurately delineating polyps due to limitations in feature representation and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Thanh Hoang Son Vo , Sae-Ryung Kang , Soo-Hyung Kim