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Polyps flagging in virtual colonoscopy

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Abstract

Computer tomographic colonography, combined with computer-aided detection, is a promising emerging technique for colonic polyp analysis. We present a complete pipeline for polyp detection, starting with a simple colon segmentation technique that enhances polyps, followed by an adaptive-scale candidate polyp delineation and classification based on new texture and geometric features that consider both the information in the candidate polyp and its immediate surrounding area. The proposed system is tested with ground truth data, including challenging flat and small polyps. For polyps larger than 6mm in size we achieve 100% sensitivity with just 0.9 false positives per case, and for polyps larger than 3mm in size we achieve 93% sensitivity with 2.8 false positives per case.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProgress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications - 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013, Proceedings
Pages181-189
Number of pages9
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2013 - Havana, Cuba
Duration: Nov 20 2013Nov 23 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8259 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2013
Country/TerritoryCuba
CityHavana
Period11/20/1311/23/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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