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Colorectal cancer is one of the common cancers in the United States. Polyp is one of the main causes of the colonic cancer and early detection of polyps will increase chance of cancer treatments. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Mojtaba Akbari , Majid Mohrekesh , Shima Rafiei , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

An efficient deep learning model that can be implemented in real-time for polyp detection is crucial to reducing polyp miss-rate during screening procedures. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to small changes in the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Hemin Ali Qadir , Younghak Shin , Jacob Bergsland , Ilangko Balasingham

Colonoscopy is a vital tool for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer, which is one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality globally; hence, it is deemed an essential technique for the prevention and early detection of colorectal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Akingbola Oluwapemiisin , Amalahu Chetachi , Adeniran Opeyemi , Fahmi Khalifa , Md Mahmudur Rahman

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. For this reason, histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps is the major instrument for the pathologist in order to infer the actual risk for cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Daniele Perlo , Enzo Tartaglione , Luca Bertero , Paola Cassoni , Marco Grangetto

A deep learning-based monocular depth estimation (MDE) technique is proposed for selection of most informative frames (key frames) of an endoscopic video. In most of the cases, ground truth depth maps of polyps are not readily available and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Pradipta Sasmal , Avinash Paul , M. K. Bhuyan , Yuji Iwahori

Accurate detection of colorectal cancer and early prevention heavily rely on precise polyp identification during gastrointestinal colonoscopy. Due to limited data, many current state-of-the-art deep learning methods for polyp segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Ankush Gajanan Arudkar , Bernard J. E. Evans

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

Colonoscopy is considered the most effective screening test to detect colorectal cancer (CRC) and its precursor lesions, i.e., polyps. However, the procedure experiences high miss rates due to polyp heterogeneity and inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Vanshali Sharma , Ulas Bagci

Unlike existing fully-supervised approaches, we rethink colorectal polyp segmentation from an out-of-distribution perspective with a simple but effective self-supervised learning approach. We leverage the ability of masked autoencoders --…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Ge-Peng Ji , Jing Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Huan Xiong , Nick Barnes

Detection and diagnosis of colon polyps are key to preventing colorectal cancer. Recent evidence suggests that AI-based computer-aided detection (CADe) and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems can enhance endoscopists' performance and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Carlo Biffi , Giulio Antonelli , Sebastian Bernhofer , Cesare Hassan , Daizen Hirata , Mineo Iwatate , Andreas Maieron , Pietro Salvagnini , Andrea Cherubini

Accurate detection of polyps is of critical importance for the early and intermediate stages of colorectal cancer diagnosis. Compared to static images, dynamic colonoscopy videos provide more comprehensive visual information, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zilin Chen , Shengnan Lu

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

Deep learning models have been proposed for automatic polyp detection and precise segmentation of polyps during colonoscopy procedures. Although these state-of-the-art models achieve high performance, they often require a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tugberk Erol , Tuba Caglikantar , Duygu Sarikaya

Polyps are early cancer indicators, so assessing occurrences of polyps and their removal is critical. They are observed through a colonoscopy screening procedure that generates a stream of video frames. Segmenting polyps in their natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ziang Xu , Jens Rittscher , Sharib Ali

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

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

A large number of different lesions and pathologies can affect the human digestive system, resulting in life-threatening situations. Early detection plays a relevant role in the successful treatment and the increase of current survival…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Adrian Galdran , Gustavo Carneiro , Miguel A. González Ballester

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…

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Colorectal diseases, including inflammatory conditions and neoplasms, require quick, accurate care to be effectively treated. Traditional diagnostic pipelines require extensive preparation and rely on separate, individual evaluations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Krithik Ramesh , Ritvik Koneru

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