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UViT-Seg: An Efficient ViT and U-Net-Based Framework for Accurate Colorectal Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy and WCE Images.
J Imaging Inform Med 2024 April 27
Colorectal cancer (CRC) stands out as one of the most prevalent global cancers. The accurate localization of colorectal polyps in endoscopy images is pivotal for timely detection and removal, contributing significantly to CRC prevention. The manual analysis of images generated by gastrointestinal screening technologies poses a tedious task for doctors. Therefore, computer vision-assisted cancer detection could serve as an efficient tool for polyp segmentation. Numerous efforts have been dedicated to automating polyp localization, with the majority of studies relying on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn features from polyp images. Despite their success in polyp segmentation tasks, CNNs exhibit significant limitations in precisely determining polyp location and shape due to their sole reliance on learning local features from images. While gastrointestinal images manifest significant variation in their features, encompassing both high- and low-level ones, a framework that combines the ability to learn both features of polyps is desired. This paper introduces UViT-Seg, a framework designed for polyp segmentation in gastrointestinal images. Operating on an encoder-decoder architecture, UViT-Seg employs two distinct feature extraction methods. A vision transformer in the encoder section captures long-range semantic information, while a CNN module, integrating squeeze-excitation and dual attention mechanisms, captures low-level features, focusing on critical image regions. Experimental evaluations conducted on five public datasets, including CVC clinic, ColonDB, Kvasir-SEG, ETIS LaribDB, and Kvasir Capsule-SEG, demonstrate UViT-Seg's effectiveness in polyp localization. To confirm its generalization performance, the model is tested on datasets not used in training. Benchmarking against common segmentation methods and state-of-the-art polyp segmentation approaches, the proposed model yields promising results. For instance, it achieves a mean Dice coefficient of 0.915 and a mean intersection over union of 0.902 on the CVC Colon dataset. Furthermore, UViT-Seg has the advantage of being efficient, requiring fewer computational resources for both training and testing. This feature positions it as an optimal choice for real-world deployment scenarios.
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