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Temporal activity localization in long videos is an important problem. The cost of obtaining frame level label for long Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) videos is prohibitive. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end temporal abnormality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sodiq Adewole , Philip Fernandes , James Jablonski , Andrew Copland , Michael Porter , Sana Syed , Donald Brown

Depth estimation plays a crucial role in various tasks within endoscopic surgery, including navigation, surface reconstruction, and augmented reality visualization. Despite the significant achievements of foundation models in vision tasks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Beilei Cui , Mobarakol Islam , Long Bai , An Wang , Hongliang Ren

Depth estimation is a foundational component for 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, existing monocular depth estimation techniques often exhibit limited performance to the varying illumination and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinning Yao , Bo Liu , Bojian Li , Jingjing Wang , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

We present a robust deep learning based 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) localization system for endoscopic capsule robots. Our system mainly focuses on localization of endoscopic capsule robots inside the GI tract using only visual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

Abnormalities in the gastrointestinal tract significantly influence the patient's health and require a timely diagnosis for effective treatment. With such consideration, an effective automatic classification of these abnormalities from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Lakshmi Srinivas Panchananam , Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kishor Upla , Kiran Raja

In order to improve model accuracy, generalization, and class imbalance issues, this work offers a strong methodology for classifying endoscopic images. We suggest a hybrid feature extraction method that combines convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Bidisha Chakraborty , Shree Mitra

Deep learning has excelled in medical image classification, but its clinical application is limited by poor interpretability. Capsule networks, known for encoding hierarchical relationships and spatial features, show potential in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jun Xu

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has transformed gastrointestinal (GI) diagnostics by enabling noninvasive visualization of the digestive tract, yet its diagnostic yield remains constrained by the absence of biopsy capability, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ruizhou Zhao , Yichen Chu , Shuwei Zhao , Wenchao Yue , Raymond Shing-Yan Tang , Hongliang Ren

This paper presents, for the first time, an image enhancement methodology designed to enhance the clarity of small intestinal villi in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. This method first separates the low-frequency and high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shaojie Zhang , Yinghui Wang , Peixuan Liu , Yukai Wang , Liangyi Huang , Mingfeng Wang , Ibragim. Atadjanov

Colorectal endoscopy is important for the early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer and is used worldwide. A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that provides an objective measure to endoscopists during colorectal endoscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Tsubasa Hirakawa , Toru Tamaki , Bisser Raytchev , Kazufumi Kaneda , Tetsushi Koide , Shigeto Yoshida , Hiroshi Mieno , Shinji Tanaka

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas

Cell and nucleus segmentation are fundamental tasks for quantitative bioimage analysis. Despite progress in recent years, biologists and other domain experts still require novel algorithms to handle increasingly large and complex real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Thibaut Goldsborough , Ben Philps , Alan O'Callaghan , Fiona Inglis , Leo Leplat , Andrew Filby , Hakan Bilen , Peter Bankhead

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is relatively a new technology to examine the entire GI trace. During an examination, it captures more than 55,000 frames. Reviewing all these images is time-consuming and prone to human error. It has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Omid Haji Maghsoudi

Physicians use Capsule Endoscopy (CE) as a non-invasive and non-surgical procedure to examine the entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract for diseases and abnormalities. A single CE examination could last between 8 to 11 hours generating up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sodiq Adewole , Philip Fernandes , James Jablonski , Andrew Copland , Michael Porter , Sana Syed , Donald Brown

Volumetric cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy images is important to study a wide variety of cellular processes. Applications range from the analysis of cancer cells to behavioral studies of cells in the embryonic stage. Like in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Royden Wagner , Karl Rohr

Computational Cannula Microscopy is a minimally invasive imaging technique that can enable high-resolution imaging deep inside tissue. Here, we apply artificial neural networks to enable fast, power-efficient image reconstructions that are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Ruipeng Guo , Zhimeng Pan , Andrew Taibi , Jason Shepherd , Rajesh Menon

In endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), intraoperative CT (iCT) offers valuable intraoperative assessment but is constrained by slow deployment and radiation exposure, limiting its clinical utility. Endoscope-based monocular 3D reconstruction is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Pengcheng Chen , Wenhao Li , Nicole Gunderson , Jeremy Ruthberg , Randall Bly , Zhenglong Sun , Waleed M. Abuzeid , Eric J. Seibel

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Endoscopy provides a major contribution to the diagnosis of the Gastrointestinal Tract (GIT) diseases. With Colon Endoscopy having its certain limitations, Wireless Capsule Endoscopy is gradually taking over it in the terms of ease and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Vanshika Vats , Pooja Goel , Amodini Agarwal , Nidhi Goel

This paper presents a rotation-invariant embedded platform for simulating (neural) cellular automata (NCA) in modular robotic systems. Inspired by previous work on physical NCA, we introduce key innovations that overcome limitations in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominik Woiwode , Jakob Marten , Bodo Rosenhahn