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Automated polyp segmentation is critical for early colorectal cancer detection and its prevention, yet remains challenging due to weak boundaries, large appearance variations, and limited annotated data. Lightweight segmentation models such…

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Polyps are the predecessors to colorectal cancer which is considered as one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Colonoscopy is the standard procedure for the identification, localization, and removal of colorectal…

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Colonoscopy, currently the most efficient and recognized colon polyp detection technology, is necessary for early screening and prevention of colorectal cancer. However, due to the varying size and complex morphological features of colonic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Jinfeng Wang , Qiming Huang , Feilong Tang , Jia Meng , Jionglong Su , Sifan Song

Colorectal cancer is among the most prevalent cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Detection and removal of polyps at an early stage can help reduce mortality and even help in spreading over adjacent organs. Early polyp detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for examination and detection of colorectal polyps. Localization and delineation of polyps can play a vital role in treatment (e.g., surgical planning) and prognostic decision making. Polyp segmentation can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Sharib Ali , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

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

Accurate polyp detection is critical for early colorectal cancer diagnosis. Although remarkable progress has been achieved in recent years, the complex colon environment and concealed polyps with unclear boundaries still pose severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yuncheng Jiang , Zixun Zhang , Yiwen Hu , Guanbin Li , Xiang Wan , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Silin Huang , Zhen Li

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common fatal cancer in the world. Polypectomy can effectively interrupt the progression of adenoma to adenocarcinoma, thus reducing the risk of CRC development. Colonoscopy is the primary method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zihuan Qiu , Zhichuan Wang , Miaomiao Zhang , Ziyong Xu , Jie Fan , Linfeng Xu

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common causes of cancer and cancer-related mortality worldwide. Performing colon cancer screening in a timely fashion is the key to early detection. Colonoscopy is the primary modality used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Annie Shergill , Brandon Rieders , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Automatic detection of colonic polyps is still an unsolved problem due to the large variation of polyps in terms of shape, texture, size, and color, and the existence of various polyp-like mimics during colonoscopy. In this study, we apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Younghak Shin , Hemin Ali Qadir , Lars Aabakken , Jacob Bergsland , Ilangko Balasingham

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,…

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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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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

Deep learning models are used to minimize the number of polyps that goes unnoticed by the experts and to accurately segment the detected polyps during interventions. Although state-of-the-art models are proposed, it remains a challenge to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Tugberk Erol , Duygu Sarikaya

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 detection of polyps is challenging because different polyps vary greatly, while the changes between polyps and their analogues are small. The state-of-the-art methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Jianwei Xu , Ran Zhao , Yizhou Yu , Qingwei Zhang , Xianzhang Bian , Jun Wang , Zhizheng Ge , Dahong Qian

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

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

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

Colonoscopy is a gold standard procedure but is highly operator-dependent. Automated polyp segmentation, a precancerous precursor, can minimize missed rates and timely treatment of colon cancer at an early stage. Even though there are deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci , Sharib Ali