QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN COLONOSCOPY - New Challenges Through Computer Vision-based Systems

Fernando Vilariño, Gerard Lacey

2009

Abstract

The assessment of the quality of the colonoscopic interventions arises as a most relevant issue once the number and the availability of these clinical procedures are increased day by day. The use of the latest computer visionbased techniques can provide the physician with both qualitative and, most important, objectively verifiable quantitative indicators of performance. In this paper we present a study in which we propose the automatic analysis of colonoscopy video for the quality assessment of the intervention from different points of view: 1) We propose the characterization of the different parts of the colon in order to obtain metrics of the time used for navigation, portion of gut analyzed, etc. 2) We analyze the image contents in order to automatically characterize the presence of polyps. 3) We use the information obtained by and eye-tracker in order to assess the physician’s skills.

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Vilariño F. and Lacey G. (2009). QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN COLONOSCOPY - New Challenges Through Computer Vision-based Systems . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111- 64-7, pages 320-325. DOI: 10.5220/0001780703200325


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@conference{biodevices09,
author={Fernando Vilariño and Gerard Lacey},
title={QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN COLONOSCOPY - New Challenges Through Computer Vision-based Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={320-325},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001780703200325},
isbn={978-989-8111- 64-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN COLONOSCOPY - New Challenges Through Computer Vision-based Systems
SN - 978-989-8111- 64-7
AU - Vilariño F.
AU - Lacey G.
PY - 2009
SP - 320
EP - 325
DO - 10.5220/0001780703200325