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Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States. Most colorectal cancers start as a growth on the inner lining of the colon or rectum, called 'polyp'. Not all polyps are cancerous, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Krushi Patel , Kaidong Li , Ke Tao , Quan Wang , Ajay Bansal , Amit Rastogi , Guanghui Wang

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

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

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

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

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

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer-related death after lung cancer and breast cancer worldwide. The risk of developing colorectal cancer could be reduced by early diagnosis of polyps during a colonoscopy. Computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Michal J. Wesolowski , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the third most prevalent malignant tumour worldwide. Early detection of CRC remains problematic due to its non-specific and often embarrassing symptoms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Natalia Sikora , Robert L. Manschke , Alethea M. Tang , Peter Dunstan , Dean A. Harris , Su Yang

In the recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and its leading subtypes, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) and their applications are spreading very fast in various aspects such as medicine. Today the most important challenge…

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Daniela L. Ramos , Hector J. Hortua

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

Colonoscopy is currently one of the most sensitive screening methods for colorectal cancer. This study investigates the frontiers of intelligent colonoscopy techniques and their prospective implications for multimodal medical applications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Ge-Peng Ji , Jingyi Liu , Peng Xu , Nick Barnes , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Deng-Ping Fan

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

Validation metrics are a key prerequisite for the reliable tracking of scientific progress and for deciding on the potential clinical translation of methods. While recent initiatives aim to develop comprehensive theoretical frameworks for…

Colon polyps are precursors to colorectal cancer, a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. This study investigates the application of deep learning-based object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Md Al Amin , Bikash Kumar Paul

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

Determining the necessity of resecting malignant polyps during colonoscopy screen is crucial for patient outcomes, yet challenging due to the time-consuming and costly nature of histopathology examination. While deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ruijie Yang , Yan Zhu , Peiyao Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Xian Yang , Shuo Wang

Colonoscopy is a common and practical method for detecting and treating polyps. Segmenting polyps from colonoscopy image is useful for diagnosis and surgery progress. Nevertheless, achieving excellent segmentation performance is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Van Thong Huynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

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

Polyps in the colon are widely known cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy. Whilst most polyps are benign, the polyp's number, size and surface structure are linked to the risk of colon cancer. Several methods have been developed to…