AuthorsK. Pogorelov, M. Riegler, S. L. Eskeland, T. de Lange, D. Johansen, C. Griwodz, P. T. Schmidt and P. Halvorsen
TitleEfficient disease detection in gastrointestinal videos – global features versus neural networks
AfilliationCommunication Systems
Project(s)Efficient EONS: Execution of Large Workloads on Elastic Heterogeneous Resources
StatusPublished
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
JournalMultimedia Tools and Applications
Volume76
Issue21
Pagination22493–22525
Date Published11/2017
PublisherACM/Springer
ISSN1380-7501
KeywordsAlgorithmic screening, Automatic disease detection, Deep learning neural networks, Global and local image features, Information retrieval, Medical, performance evaluation
Abstract

Analysis of medical videos from the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract for detection and localization of abnormalities like lesions and diseases requires both high precision and recall. Additionally, it is important to support efficient, real-time processing for live feedback during (i) standard colonoscopies and (ii) scalability for massive population-based screening, which we conjecture can be done using a wireless video capsule endoscope (camera-pill). Existing related work in this field does neither provide the necessary combination of accuracy and performance for detecting multiple classes of abnormalities simultaneously nor for particular disease localization tasks. In this paper, a complete end-to-end multimedia system is presented where the aim is to tackle automatic analysis of GI tract videos. The system includes an entire pipeline ranging from data collection, processing and analysis, to visualization. The system combines deep learning neural networks, information retrieval, and analysis of global and local image features in order to implement multi-class classification, detection and localization. Furthermore, it is built in a modular way, so that it can be easily extended to deal with other types of abnormalities. Simultaneously, the system is developed for efficient processing in order to provide real-time feedback to the doctors and for scalability reasons when potentially applied for massive population-based algorithmic screenings in the future. Initial experiments show that our system has multiclass detection accuracy and polyp localization precision at least as good as state-of-the-art systems, and provides additional novelty in terms of real-time performance, low resource consumption and ability to extend with support for new classes of diseases.

URLhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11042-017-4989-y
DOI10.1007/s11042-017-4989-y
Citation Key25462

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