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Colorectal Cancer(CRC) poses a great risk to public health. It is the third most common cause of cancer in the US. Development of colorectal polyps is one of the earliest signs of cancer. Early detection and resection of polyps can greatly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Debayan Bhattacharya , Christian Betz , Dennis Eggert , Alexander Schlaefer

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

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

Endoscopy is the most widely used imaging technique for the diagnosis of cancerous lesions in hollow organs. However, endoscopic images are often affected by illumination artefacts: image parts may be over- or underexposed according to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Axel Garcia-Vega , Ricardo Espinosa , Luis Ramirez-Guzman , Thomas Bazin , Luis Falcon-Morales , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Dominique Lamarque , Christian Daul

Polyps in the colon are widely known cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy. Whilst most polyps are benign, the polyp's number, size and surface structure are linked to the risk of colon cancer. Several methods have been developed to…

Automatic polyp detection and segmentation are highly desirable for colon screening due to polyp miss rate by physicians during colonoscopy, which is about 25%. However, this computerization is still an unsolved problem due to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Hemin Ali Qadir , Younghak Shin , Johannes Solhusvik , Jacob Bergsland , Lars Aabakken , Ilangko Balasingham

Colonoscopy video frames might be contaminated by bright spots with unsaturated values known as specular reflection. Detection and removal of such reflections could enhance the quality of colonoscopy images and facilitate diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Mojtaba Akbari , Majid Mohrekesh , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

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

Colonoscopy is a common and practical method for detecting and treating polyps. Segmenting polyps from colonoscopy image is useful for diagnosis and surgery progress. Nevertheless, achieving excellent segmentation performance is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Van Thong Huynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

Accurate detection of polyps is of critical importance for the early and intermediate stages of colorectal cancer diagnosis. Compared to static images, dynamic colonoscopy videos provide more comprehensive visual information, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zilin Chen , Shengnan Lu

Polyp segmentation is a critical step in colorectal cancer detection, yet it remains challenging due to the diverse shapes, sizes, and low contrast boundaries of polyps in medical imaging. In this work, we propose a novel framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fatemeh Salahi Chashmi , Roya Sotoudeh

The automatic detection of frames containing polyps from a colonoscopy video sequence is an important first step for a fully automated colonoscopy analysis tool. Typically, such detection system is built using a large annotated data set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Yuyuan Liu , Yu Tian , Gabriel Maicas , Leonardo Z. C. T. Pu , Rajvinder Singh , Johan W. Verjans , Gustavo Carneiro

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

Accurate polyp detection is essential for assisting clinical rectal cancer diagnoses. Colonoscopy videos contain richer information than still images, making them a valuable resource for deep learning methods. Great efforts have been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuncheng Jiang , Zixun Zhang , Ruimao Zhang , Guanbin Li , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Accurate polyp segmentation is of great importance for colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, due to the high cost of producing accurate mask annotations, existing polyp segmentation methods suffer from severe data shortage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Jun Wei , Yiwen Hu , Guanbin Li , Shuguang Cui , S Kevin Zhou , Zhen Li

Colorectal cancer is a deadly disease that has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Early detection is crucial for saving lives, but traditional diagnostic methods such as colonoscopy and biopsy have limitations. Colonoscopy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-18 Shangqing Tong , Peng Ge , Yanan Jiao , Zhaofu Ma , Ziye Li , Longhai Liu , Feng Gao , Xiaohui Du , Fei Gao

Colorectal cancer is one of the common cancers in the United States. Polyp is one of the main causes of the colonic cancer and early detection of polyps will increase chance of cancer treatments. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Mojtaba Akbari , Majid Mohrekesh , Shima Rafiei , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

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

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

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Optical colonoscopy is the gold standard for detecting colorectal cancer; however, about 25 percent of polyps are missed during the procedure. A vision-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Alwyn Mathew , Ludovic Magerand , Emanuele Trucco , Luigi Manfredi