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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…

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Cancer segmentation in whole-slide images is a fundamental step for viable tumour burden estimation, which is of great value for cancer assessment. However, factors like vague boundaries or small regions dissociated from viable tumour areas…

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Colorectal polyps are structural abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract that can potentially become cancerous in some cases. The study introduces a novel framework for colorectal polyp segmentation named the Multi-Scale and Multi-Path…

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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Simultaneous multi-index quantification, segmentation, and uncertainty estimation of liver tumors on multi-modality non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (NCMRI) are crucial for accurate diagnosis. However, existing methods lack an…

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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 contributes significantly to cancer-related mortality. Timely identification and elimination of polyps through colonoscopy screening is crucial in order to decrease mortality rates. Accurately detecting polyps in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Owen Singh , Sandeep Singh Sengar

This paper presents a novel supervised convolutional neural network architecture, "DUCK-Net", capable of effectively learning and generalizing from small amounts of medical images to perform accurate segmentation tasks. Our model utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Darius Peteleaza , Catalin Craciun

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

Colonoscopy is still the main method of detection and segmentation of colonic polyps, and recent advancements in deep learning networks such as U-Net, ResUNet, Swin-UNet, and PraNet have made outstanding performance in polyp segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Madan Baduwal

Automated polyp segmentation is essential for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer, yet developing robust models remains challenging due to limited annotated data and significant performance degradation under domain shift. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoran Xi , Chen Liu , Xiaolin Li

Accurate segmentation of colorectal polyps in colonoscopy images is crucial for effective diagnosis and management of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, current deep learning-based methods primarily rely on fusing RGB information across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Wenhao Xu , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Xiuli Li , Shibiao Xu , Li Guo

Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography (CT) images can support radiation therapy and image-guided surgery workflows. Developing of such automatic solutions remains challenging mainly owing to complex organ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zefan Yang , Di Lin , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

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…

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