Liew WS, Tang TB, Lin CH, Lu CK. Automatic colonic polyp detection using integration of modified deep residual convolutional neural network and ensemble learning approaches.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2021;
206:106114. [PMID:
33984661 DOI:
10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106114]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE
The increased incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its mortality rate have attracted interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools to detect polyps at an early stage. Although these CAD tools have thus far achieved a good accuracy level to detect polyps, they still have room to improve further (e.g. sensitivity). Therefore, a new CAD tool is developed in this study to detect colonic polyps accurately.
METHODS
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to distinguish colonic polyps by integrating several techniques, including a modified deep residual network, principal component analysis and AdaBoost ensemble learning. A powerful deep residual network architecture, ResNet-50, was investigated to reduce the computational time by altering its architecture. To keep the interference to a minimum, median filter, image thresholding, contrast enhancement, and normalisation techniques were exploited on the endoscopic images to train the classification model. Three publicly available datasets, i.e., Kvasir, ETIS-LaribPolypDB, and CVC-ClinicDB, were merged to train the model, which included images with and without polyps.
RESULTS
The proposed approach trained with a combination of three datasets achieved Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.9819 with accuracy, sensitivity, precision, and specificity of 99.10%, 98.82%, 99.37%, and 99.38%, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
These results show that our method could repeatedly classify endoscopic images automatically and could be used to effectively develop computer-aided diagnostic tools for early CRC detection.
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