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Colorectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers today, but it can be prevented through early detection of malignant polyps in the colon, primarily via colonoscopies. While this method has saved many lives, human error remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Jose Angel Nuñez , Fabian Vazquez , Diego Adame , Xiaoyan Fu , Pengfei Gu , Bin Fu

In this study, to address the current high earlydetection miss rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) polyps, we explore the potentials of utilizing transfer learning and machine learning (ML) classifiers to precisely and sensitively classify the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Nethra Venkatayogi , Ozdemir Can Kara , Jeff Bonyun , Naruhiko Ikoma , Farshid Alambeigi

Polyp segmentation plays a crucial role in the early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, obtaining accurate segmentations often requires labor-intensive annotations and specialized models. Recently, Meta AI Research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer diagnosed in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among both genders. Notably, CRC is the leading cause of cancer in younger men less than 50…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Koushik Biswas , Tyler M. Berzin , Rajesh Keswani , Michael Wallace , Ulas Bagci

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Excision of polyps during colonoscopy helps reduce mortality and morbidity for CRC. Powered by deep learning, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci

Automated analysis of optical colonoscopy (OC) video frames (to assist endoscopists during OC) is challenging due to variations in color, lighting, texture, and specular reflections. Previous methods either remove some of these variations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Shawn Mathew , Saad Nadeem , 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

Existing polyp segmentation models from colonoscopy images often fail to provide reliable segmentation results on datasets from different centers, limiting their applicability. Our objective in this study is to create a robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci

Real-time polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet clinical deployment remains blocked by GPU dependency. We introduce the UltraSeg family, a set of CPU-native segmentation models operating below 0.3M…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Weihao Gao , Zhuo Deng , Zheng Gong , Lan Ma

Tracking cells in time-lapse videos is an essential technique for monitoring cell population dynamics at a single-cell level. Current methods for cell tracking are developed on videos with mostly single, constant signals and do not detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Florian Bürger , Martim Dias Gomes , Nica Gutu , Adrián E. Granada , Noémie Moreau , Katarzyna Bozek

Automatic polyp segmentation is helpful to assist clinical diagnosis and treatment. In daily clinical practice, clinicians exhibit robustness in identifying polyps with both location and size variations. It is uncertain if deep segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Runpu Wei , Zijin Yin , Kongming Liang , Min Min , Chengwei Pan , Gang Yu , Haonan Huang , Yan Liu , Zhanyu Ma

Accurate computer-aided polyp detection and segmentation during colonoscopy examinations can help endoscopists resect abnormal tissue and thereby decrease chances of polyps growing into cancer. Towards developing a fully automated model for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Debesh Jha , Pia H. Smedsrud , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Thomas de Lange , Pal Halvorsen , Havard D. Johansen

Accurate assessment of bowel cleanliness is essential for effective colonoscopy procedures. The Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) offers a standardized scoring system but suffers from subjectivity and inter-observer variability when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Yujia Fu , Zhiyu Dong , Tianwen Qian , Chenye Zheng , Danian Ji , Linhai Zhuo

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

In this study, toward addressing the over-confident outputs of existing artificial intelligence-based colorectal cancer (CRC) polyp classification techniques, we propose a confidence-calibrated residual neural network. Utilizing a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Siddhartha Kapuria , Tarunraj G. Mohanraj , Nethra Venkatayogi , Ozdemir Can Kara , Yuki Hirata , Patrick Minot , Ariel Kapusta , Naruhiko Ikoma , Farshid Alambeigi

Accurate polyp segmentation is of great importance for colorectal cancer diagnosis. However, even with a powerful deep neural network, there still exists three big challenges that impede the development of polyp segmentation. (i) Samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Yiwen Hu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui

Colorectal cancer is among the most common cause of cancer worldwide. Removal of precancerous polyps through early detection is essential to prevent them from progressing to colon cancer. We develop an advanced deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debayan Bhattacharya , Ulas Bagci

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the first cause of death in many countries. CRC originates from a small clump of cells on the lining of the colon called polyps, which over time might grow and become malignant. Early detection and removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Truong Dang , Thanh Nguyen , John McCall , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

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…

Automated polyp segmentation is essential for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer, yet developing robust models remains challenging due to limited annotated data and significant performance degradation under domain shift. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoran Xi , Chen Liu , Xiaolin Li