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Given the close association between colorectal cancer and polyps, the diagnosis and identification of colorectal polyps play a critical role in the detection and surgical intervention of colorectal cancer. In this context, the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuefeng Wei , Xuan Zhou

This paper presents a colonoscope tracking method utilizing a colon shape estimation method. CT colonography is used as a less-invasive colon diagnosis method. If colonic polyps or early-stage cancers are found, they are removed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Masahiro Oda , Holger R. Roth , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kazuhiro Furukawa , Ryoji Miyahara , Yoshiki Hirooka , Nassir Navab , Kensaku Mori

Accurate endoscopic image segmentation on the polyps is critical for early colorectal cancer detection. However, this task remains challenging due to low contrast with surrounding mucosa, specular highlights, and indistinct boundaries. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Juntong Fan , Shuyi Fan , Debesh Jha , Changsheng Fang , Tieyong Zeng , Hengyong Yu , Dayang Wang

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality, underscoring the importance of timely polyp detection and diagnosis. While deep learning models have improved optical-assisted diagnostics, they often demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ruijie Yang , Yan Zhu , Peiyao Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Xian Yang , Shuo Wang

Automated polyp segmentation is critical for early colorectal cancer detection and its prevention, yet remains challenging due to weak boundaries, large appearance variations, and limited annotated data. Lightweight segmentation models such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shivanshu Agnihotri , Snehashis Majhi , Deepak Ranjan Nayak

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 videos provide richer information in polyp segmentation for rectal cancer diagnosis. However, the endoscope's fast moving and close-up observing make the current methods suffer from large spatial incoherence and continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qiang Hu , Zhenyu Yi , Ying Zhou , Fang Peng , Mei Liu , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang

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

Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for detection of colorectal cancer and its precursors. Existing examination methods are, however, hampered by high overall miss-rate, and many abnormalities are left undetected. Computer-Aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Debesh Jha , Pia H. Smedsrud , Dag Johansen , Thomas de Lange , Håvard D. Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler

Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Colonoscopy is a widely used technique for colon screening and polyp lesions diagnosis. Nevertheless, manual screening using colonoscopy suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhiqiang Shen , Chaonan Lin , Shaohua Zheng

Precise localization of polyp is crucial for early cancer screening in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Videos given by endoscopy bring both richer contextual information as well as more challenges than still images. The camera-moving situation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Lingyun Wu , Zhiqiang Hu , Yuanfeng Ji , Ping Luo , Shaoting Zhang

Existing video polyp segmentation (VPS) paradigms usually struggle to balance between spatiotemporal modeling and domain generalization, limiting their applicability in real clinical scenarios. To embrace this challenge, we recast the VPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qiang Hu , Ying Zhou , Gepeng Ji , Nick Barnes , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang

Identifying polyps is challenging for automatic analysis of endoscopic images in computer-aided clinical support systems. Models based on convolutional networks (CNN), transformers, and their combinations have been proposed to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Nguyen Thanh Duc , Nguyen Thi Oanh , Nguyen Thi Thuy , Tran Minh Triet , Dinh Viet Sang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized medical imaging analysis, showcasing superior efficacy compared to conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in vital tasks such as polyp classification, detection, and segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Khaled ELKarazle , Valliappan Raman , Caslon Chua , Patrick Then

Detection of colon polyps has become a trending topic in the intersecting fields of machine learning and gastrointestinal endoscopy. The focus has mainly been on per-frame classification. More recently, polyp segmentation has gained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Vajira Thambawita , Steven A. Hicks , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler

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…

Accurate and robust polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection and for computer-aided diagnosis. While convolutional neural network-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based U-Net variants have achieved strong performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fabian Vazquez , Jose A. Nuñez , Diego Adame , Alissen Moreno , Augustin Zhan , Huimin Li , Jinghao Yang , Haoteng Tang , Bin Fu , Pengfei Gu

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

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

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