Blood Vessel Characterization in Colonoscopy Images to Improve Polyp Localization

Joan M. Núñez, Jorge Bernal, Javier Sánchez, Fernando Vilariño

2013

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to mitigate the contribution of blood vessels to the energy image used at different tasks of automatic colonoscopy image analysis. This goal is achieved by introducing a characterization of endoluminal scene objects which allows us to differentiate between the trace of 2-dimensional visual objects, such as vessels, and shades from 3-dimensional visual objects, such as folds. The proposed characterization is based on the influence that the object shape has in the resulting visual feature, and it leads to the development of a blood vessel attenuation algorithm. A database consisting of manually labelled masks was built in order to test the performance of our method, which shows an encouraging success in blood vessel mitigation while keeping other structures intact. Moreover, by extending our method to the only available polyp localization algorithm tested on a public database, blood vessel mitigation proved to have a positive influence on the overall performance.

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M. Núñez J., Bernal J., Sánchez J. and Vilariño F. (2013). Blood Vessel Characterization in Colonoscopy Images to Improve Polyp Localization . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1, pages 162-171. DOI: 10.5220/0004211601620171


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@conference{visapp13,
author={Joan M. Núñez and Jorge Bernal and Javier Sánchez and Fernando Vilariño},
title={Blood Vessel Characterization in Colonoscopy Images to Improve Polyp Localization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={162-171},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004211601620171},
isbn={978-989-8565-47-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Blood Vessel Characterization in Colonoscopy Images to Improve Polyp Localization
SN - 978-989-8565-47-1
AU - M. Núñez J.
AU - Bernal J.
AU - Sánchez J.
AU - Vilariño F.
PY - 2013
SP - 162
EP - 171
DO - 10.5220/0004211601620171