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Colorectal cancer is a one of the highest causes of cancer-related death, especially in men. Polyps are one of the main causes of colorectal cancer and early diagnosis of polyps by colonoscopy could result in successful treatment. Diagnosis…

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

Polyp segmentation in colonoscopy images is crucial for early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, this task remains a significant challenge due to the substantial variations in polyp shape, size, and color, as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tapas K. Dutta , Snehashis Majhi , Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Debesh Jha

Colorectal cancer (CRC), which frequently originates from initially benign polyps, remains a significant contributor to global cancer-related mortality. Early and accurate detection of these polyps via colonoscopy is crucial for CRC…

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Accurate polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet achieving reliable boundary localization remains challenging due to low mucosal contrast, uneven illumination, and color similarity between polyps and…

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Accurate segmentation of polyps from colonoscopy videos is of great significance to polyp treatment and early prevention of colorectal cancer. However, it is challenging due to the difficulties associated with modelling long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Geng Chen , Junqing Yang , Xiaozhou Pu , Ge-Peng Ji , Huan Xiong , Yongsheng Pan , Hengfei Cui , Yong Xia

Medical image semantic segmentation techniques can help identify tumors automatically from computed tomography (CT) scans. In this paper, we propose a Contextual and Attentional feature Fusions enhanced Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ming Kang , Chee-Ming Ting , Fung Fung Ting , Raphaël Phan

The accurate segmentation of medical images is a crucial step in obtaining reliable morphological statistics. However, training a deep neural network for this task requires a large amount of labeled data to ensure high-accuracy results. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Xianjun Han , Qianqian Chen , Zhaoyang Xie , Xuejun Li , Hongyu Yang

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

Multi-centre colonoscopy images from various medical centres exhibit distinct complicating factors and overlays that impact the image content, contingent on the specific acquisition centre. Existing Deep Segmentation networks struggle to…

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Segmentation of findings in the gastrointestinal tract is a challenging but also an important task which is an important building stone for sufficient automatic decision support systems. In this work, we present our solution for the Medico…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Vajira Thambawita , Steven Hicks , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler

Colonoscopic Polyp Re-Identification aims to match a specific polyp in a large gallery with different cameras and views, which plays a key role for the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer in the computer-aided diagnosis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Suncheng Xiang , Cang Liu , Sijia Du , Dahong Qian

Ophthalmic image segmentation serves as a critical foundation for ocular disease diagnosis. Although fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly employed for segmentation, they are constrained by inductive biases and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zunjie Xiao , Xiaoqing Zhang , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated outstanding performance in global image understanding and zero-shot transfer through large-scale text-image alignment. However, the core of medical image analysis often lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiahui Peng , He Yao , Jingwen Li , Yanzhou Su , Sibo Ju , Yujie Lu , Jin Ye , Hongchun Lu , Xue Li , Lincheng Jiang , Min Zhu , Junlong Cheng

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

Mucous glands lesions analysis and assessing of malignant potential of colon polyps are very important tasks of surgical pathology. However, differential diagnosis of colon polyps often seems impossible by classical methods and it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 A. Khvostikov , A. Krylov , O. Kharlova , N. Oleynikova , I. Mikhailov , P. Malkov

Detecting polyps through colonoscopy is an important task in medical image segmentation, which provides significant assistance and reference value for clinical surgery. However, accurate segmentation of polyps is a challenging task due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianhao Xie , Ruofan Liao , Ziang Zhang , Sida Yi , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

Deep learning for medical imaging is hampered by task-specific models that lack generalizability and prognostic capabilities, while existing 'universal' approaches suffer from simplistic conditioning and poor medical semantic understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Numan Saeed , Tausifa Jan Saleem , Fadillah Maani , Muhammad Ridzuan , Hu Wang , Mohammad Yaqub

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in assisting healthcare professionals with accurate diagnoses and enabling automated diagnostic processes. Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often struggle with capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Phuong-Nam Tran , Nhat Truong Pham , Duc Ngoc Minh Dang , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in medical image analysis. However, their application in gastrointestinal endoscopy is currently hindered by two critical limitations: the misalignment between…

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