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Polyp has long been considered as one of the major etiologies to colorectal cancer which is a fatal disease around the world, thus early detection and recognition of polyps plays a crucial role in clinical routines. Accurate diagnoses of…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-06 Xi Mo , Ke Tao , Quan Wang , Guanghui Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , Alpha Alimamy Kamara , Zhongyi Zhang , David Chen , Albert Patrick Sankoh

In this study, with the goal of reducing the early detection miss rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) polyps, we propose utilizing a novel hyper-sensitive vision-based tactile sensor called HySenSe and a complementary and novel machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nethra Venkatayogi , Qin Hu , Ozdemir Can Kara , Tarunraj G. Mohanraj , S. Farokh Atashzar , Farshid Alambeigi

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers all over the world. It starts as a polyp in the inner lining of the colon. To prevent CRC, early polyp detection is required. Colonosopy is used for the inspection of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Alok Ranjan Sahoo , Satya Sangram Sahoo , Pavan Chakraborty

Polyps represent an early sign of the development of Colorectal Cancer. The standard procedure for their detection consists of colonoscopic examination of the gastrointestinal tract. However, the wide range of polyp shapes and visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Adrian Galdran , Gustavo Carneiro , Miguel A. González Ballester

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

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

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

Pre-training on image-text colonoscopy records offers substantial potential for improving endoscopic image analysis, but faces challenges including non-informative background images, complex medical terminology, and ambiguous multi-lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yili He , Yan Zhu , Peiyao Fu , Ruijie Yang , Tianyi Chen , Zhihua Wang , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Xian Yang , Shuo Wang

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common and lethal disease. Globally, CRC is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second in females. For colorectal cancer, the best screening test available is the colonoscopy. During a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Dechun Wang , Ning Zhang , Xinzi Sun , Pengfei Zhang , Chenxi Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

A major challenge in applying deep learning to medical imaging is the paucity of annotated data. This study demonstrates that synthetic colonoscopy images generated by Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) inversion can be used as training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Mayank Golhar , Taylor L. Bobrow , Saowanee Ngamruengphong , Nicholas J. Durr

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

Automated polyp counting in colonoscopy is a crucial step toward automated procedure reporting and quality control, aiming to enhance the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy screening. Counting polyps in a procedure involves detecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Luca Parolari , Andrea Cherubini , Lamberto Ballan , Carlo Biffi

Despite recent surge of interest in deploying colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) for early diagnosis of colorectal diseases, there remains a large gap between the current state of CCE in clinical practice, and the state of its counterpart…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Esmaeil S. Nadimi , Jan-Matthias Braun , Benedicte Schelde-Olesen , Emile Prudhomme , Victoria Blanes-Vidal , Gunnar Baatrup

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for examination and detection of colorectal polyps. Localization and delineation of polyps can play a vital role in treatment (e.g., surgical planning) and prognostic decision making. Polyp segmentation can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Sharib Ali , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Automatic analysis of colonoscopy images has been an active field of research motivated by the importance of early detection of precancerous polyps. However, detecting polyps during the live examination can be challenging due to various…

Learning robust representations of polyp tracklets is key to enabling multiple AI-assisted colonoscopy applications, from polyp characterization to automated reporting and retrieval. Supervised contrastive learning is an effective approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Luca Parolari , Pietro Gori , Lamberto Ballan , Carlo Biffi , Loic Le Folgoc

Computer-aided detection, localisation, and segmentation methods can help improve colonoscopy procedures. Even though many methods have been built to tackle automatic detection and segmentation of polyps, benchmarking of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Debesh Jha , Sharib Ali , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag D. Johansen , Jens Rittscher , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

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

The scarcity of data in medical domains hinders the performance of Deep Learning models. Data augmentation techniques can alleviate that problem, but they usually rely on functional transformations of the data that do not guarantee to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Adrian Tormos , Blanca Llauradó , Fernando Núñez , Axel Romero , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Javier Béjar