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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

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective message passing method to improve the boundary quality for the semantic segmentation result. Inspired by the generated sharp edges of superpixel blocks, we employ superpixel to guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jie Zhu , Huabin Huang , Banghuai Li , Yong Liu , Leye Wang

Colonoscopy is a procedure to detect colorectal polyps which are the primary cause for developing colorectal cancer. However, polyp segmentation is a challenging task due to the diverse shape, size, color, and texture of polyps, shuttle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Krushi Patel , Andres M. Bur , Guanghui Wang

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

Deep learning-based techniques have proven effective in polyp segmentation tasks when provided with sufficient pixel-wise labeled data. However, the high cost of manual annotation has created a bottleneck for model generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , De-Jun Fan , Feng Gao , Xiao-Jian Wu , Guanbin Li

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

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

Accurate segmentation of polyps and skin lesions is essential for diagnosing colorectal and skin cancers. While various segmentation methods for polyps and skin lesions using fully supervised deep learning techniques have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Encheng Su , Hu Cao , Alois Knoll

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

Automatic polyp segmentation is crucial for improving the clinical identification of colorectal cancer (CRC). While Deep Learning (DL) techniques have been extensively researched for this problem, current methods frequently struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Carla Monteiro , Valentina Corbetta , Regina Beets-Tan , Luís F. Teixeira , Wilson Silva

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

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

This paper contributes to automating medical image segmentation by proposing generative adversarial network-based models to segment both polyps and instruments in endoscopy images. A major contribution of this work is to provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Awadelrahman M. A. Ahmed , Leen A. M. Ali

Colonoscopy is an effective technique for detecting colorectal polyps, which are highly related to colorectal cancer. In clinical practice, segmenting polyps from colonoscopy images is of great importance since it provides valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Tao Zhou , Geng Chen , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

The transformer-based semantic segmentation approaches, which divide the image into different regions by sliding windows and model the relation inside each window, have achieved outstanding success. However, since the relation modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zizhang Wu , Yuanzhu Gan , Tianhao Xu , Fan Wang

Compared to the general semantic segmentation problem, portrait segmentation has higher precision requirement on boundary area. However, this problem has not been well studied in previous works. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Xianzhi Du , Xiaolong Wang , Dawei Li , Jingwen Zhu , Serafettin Tasci , Cameron Upright , Stephen Walsh , Larry Davis

Modern medical image segmentation methods primarily use discrete representations in the form of rasterized masks to learn features and generate predictions. Although effective, this paradigm is spatially inflexible, scales poorly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yejia Zhang , Pengfei Gu , Nishchal Sapkota , Danny Z. Chen

Accurate polyp segmentation in colonoscopy is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet real-world clinical environments pose persistent challenges such as motion blur, specular reflections, and illumination instability. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhuoyu Wu , Wenhui Ou , Lexi Zhang , Pei-Sze Tan , Dongjun Wu , Junhe Zhao , Wenqi Fang , Raphaël C. -W. Phan

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

Medical image analysis has become a prominent area where machine learning has been applied. However, high quality, publicly available data is limited either due to patient privacy laws or the time and cost required for experts to annotate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Daniel Saragih , Atsuhiro Hibi , Pascal Tyrrell