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Automatic and accurate polyp segmentation plays an essential role in early colorectal cancer diagnosis. However, it has always been a challenging task due to 1) the diverse shape, size, brightness and other appearance characteristics of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Peiwen Lai , Xiang Wan , De-Jun Fan , Feng Gao , Xiao-Jian Wu , Guanbin Li

We present a new boundary sensitive framework for polyp segmentation, called Polyper. Our method is motivated by a clinical approach that seasoned medical practitioners often leverage the inherent features of interior polyp regions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Hao Shao , Yang Zhang , Qibin Hou

One of the major obstacles in automatic polyp detection during colonoscopy is the lack of labeled polyp training images. In this paper, we propose a framework of conditional adversarial networks to increase the number of training samples by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Younghak Shin , Hemin Ali Qadir , Ilangko Balasingham

This paper presents a novel supervised convolutional neural network architecture, "DUCK-Net", capable of effectively learning and generalizing from small amounts of medical images to perform accurate segmentation tasks. Our model utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Darius Peteleaza , Catalin Craciun

In recent years, polyp segmentation has gained significant importance, and many methods have been developed using CNN, Vision Transformer, and Transformer techniques to achieve competitive results. However, these methods often face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Quoc-Huy Trinh

More than 90\% of colorectal cancer is gradually transformed from colorectal polyps. In clinical practice, precise polyp segmentation provides important information in the early detection of colorectal cancer. Therefore, automatic polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Synthetic polyp generation is a good alternative to overcome the privacy problem of medical data and the lack of various polyp samples. In this study, we propose a deep learning-based polyp image generation framework that generates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Hemin Ali Qadir , Ilangko Balasingham , Younghak Shin

Accurate polyp delineation in colonoscopy is crucial for assisting in diagnosis, guiding interventions, and treatments. However, current deep-learning approaches fall short due to integrity deficiency, which often manifests as missing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Ziqiang Chen , Kang Wang , Yun Liu

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

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

Most polyp segmentation methods use CNNs as their backbone, leading to two key issues when exchanging information between the encoder and decoder: 1) taking into account the differences in contribution between different-level features and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Bo Dong , Wenhai Wang , Deng-Ping Fan , Jinpeng Li , Huazhu Fu , Ling Shao

Segmenting polyps in colonoscopy images is essential for the early identification and diagnosis of colorectal cancer, a significant cause of worldwide cancer deaths. Prior deep learning based models such as Attention based variation, UNet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Al Mohimanul Islam , Sadia Shakiba Bhuiyan , Mysun Mashira , Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Salekul Islam , Swakkhar Shatabda

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

Automated diagnostic systems (ADS) have shown significant potential in the early detection of polyps during endoscopic examinations, thereby reducing the incidence of colorectal cancer. However, due to high annotation costs and strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shengyuan Liu , Zhen Chen , Qiushi Yang , Weihao Yu , Di Dong , Jiancong Hu , Yixuan Yuan

Polyp segmentation plays a pivotal role in colorectal cancer diagnosis. Recently, the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has introduced unprecedented potential for polyp segmentation, leveraging its powerful pre-training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Huiqian Li , Dingwen Zhang , Jieru Yao , Longfei Han , Zhongyu Li , Junwei Han

Early and accurate segmentation of colorectal polyps is critical for reducing colorectal cancer mortality, which has been extensively explored by academia and industry. However, current deep learning-based polyp segmentation models either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ziyi Wang , Yuanmei Zhang , Dorna Esrafilzadeh , Ali R. Jalili , Suncheng Xiang

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

Inpainting lesions within different normal backgrounds is a potential method of addressing the generalization problem, which is crucial for polyp segmentation models. However, seamlessly introducing polyps into complex endoscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jiajian Ma , Fangqi Lu , Silin Huang , Song Wu , Zhen Li

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

Colon polyps are considered important precursors for colorectal cancer. Automatic segmentation of colon polyps can significantly reduce the misdiagnosis of colon cancer and improve physician annotation efficiency. While many methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yuheng Li , Mingzhe Hu , Xiaofeng Yang