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Box-supervised polyp segmentation attracts increasing attention for its cost-effective potential. Existing solutions often rely on learning-free methods or pretrained models to laboriously generate pseudo masks, triggering Dice constraint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zhiwei Wang , Qiang Hu , Hongkuan Shi , Li He , Man He , Wenxuan Dai , Yinjiao Tian , Xin Yang , Mei Liu , Qiang Li

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading worldwide cause of cancer-related mortality, and the role of prompt precise detection is of paramount interest in improving patient outcomes. Conventional diagnostic methods such as colonoscopy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ovi Sarkar , Md Shafiuzzaman , Md. Faysal Ahamed , Golam Mahmud , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

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

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

Colonoscopy is crucial for identifying adenomatous polyps and preventing colorectal cancer. However, developing robust models for polyp detection is challenging by the limited size and accessibility of existing colonoscopy datasets. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yifan Xie , Jingge Wang , Tao Feng , Fei Ma , Yang Li

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

In colonoscopy, 80% of the missed polyps could be detected with the help of Deep Learning models. In the search for algorithms capable of addressing this challenge, foundation models emerge as promising candidates. Their zero-shot or…

Conventional object detectors rely on cross-entropy classification, which can be vulnerable to class imbalance and label noise. We propose CLIP-Joint-Detect, a simple and detector-agnostic framework that integrates CLIP-style contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Behnam Raoufi , Hossein Sharify , Mohamad Mahdee Ramezanee , Khosrow Hajsadeghi , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Colorectal cancer screening modalities, such as optical colonoscopy (OC) and virtual colonoscopy (VC), are critical for diagnosing and ultimately removing polyps (precursors of colon cancer). The non-invasive VC is normally used to inspect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Shawn Mathew , Saad Nadeem , Sruti Kumari , Arie Kaufman

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

Identifying unique polyps in colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) images is a critical yet challenging task for medical personnel due to the large volume of images, the cognitive load it creates for clinicians, and the ambiguity in labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Puneet Sharma , Kristian Dalsbø Hindberg , Eibe Frank , Benedicte Schelde-Olesen , Ulrik Deding

Survival rates for colorectal cancer are higher when polyps are detected at an early stage and can be removed before they develop into malignant tumors. Automated polyp detection, which is dominated by deep learning based methods, seeks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Maxime Kayser , Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul , Anna-Maria Zvereva , Peter Klare , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

This paper proposes a smart handheld textural sensing medical device with complementary Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to enable on-site Colorectal Cancer (CRC) polyp diagnosis and pathology of excised tumors. The proposed unique handheld…

The automatic and objective medical diagnostic model can be valuable to achieve early cancer detection, and thus reducing the mortality rate. In this paper, we propose a highly efficient multi-level malignant tissue detection through the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Chuang Zhu , Ke Mei , Ting Peng , Yihao Luo , Jun Liu , Ying Wang , Mulan Jin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are propelling advances in a range of different computer vision tasks such as object detection and object segmentation. Their success has motivated research in applications of such models for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

Skin image datasets often suffer from imbalanced data distribution, exacerbating the difficulty of computer-aided skin disease diagnosis. Some recent works exploit supervised contrastive learning (SCL) for this long-tailed challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yilan Zhang , Jianqi Chen , Ke Wang , Fengying Xie

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

Automated detection of cervical cancer cells or cell clumps has the potential to significantly reduce error rate and increase productivity in cervical cancer screening. However, most traditional methods rely on the success of accurate cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yixiong Liang , Zhihong Tang , Meng Yan , Jialin Chen , Qing Liu , Yao Xiang

Colorectal cancer, largely arising from precursor lesions called polyps, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Current clinical standards require the resection and histopathological analysis of polyps due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Rodney LaLonde , Pujan Kandel , Concetto Spampinato , Michael B. Wallace , Ulas Bagci

Colon cancer is expected to become the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States in 2023. Although colonoscopy is one of the most effective methods for early prevention of colon cancer, up to 30% of polyps may be missed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xiao Yang , Enmin Song , Guangzhi Ma , Yunfeng Zhu , Dongming Yu , Bowen Ding , Xianyuan Wang