AUTOMATED POLYP DETECTION IN COLONOSCOPY VIDEOS USING IMAGE ENHANCEMENT AND SALIENCY DETECTION ALGORITHM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Nisha ◽  
V. P. Gopi ◽  
P. Palanisamy
Keyword(s):  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Polyp Detection ◽  
Database Comparison ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Enhancement Algorithm

Colonoscopy has proven to be an active diagnostic tool that examines the lower half of the digestive system’s anomalies. This paper confers a Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) method for polyps from colonoscopy images that helps to diagnose the early stage of Colorectal Cancer (CRC). The proposed method consists primarily of image enhancement, followed by the creation of a saliency map, feature extraction using the Histogram of Oriented-Gradients (HOG) feature extractor, and classification using the Support Vector Machine (SVM). We present an efficient image enhancement algorithm for highlighting clinically significant features in colonoscopy images. The proposed enhancement approach can improve the overall contrast and brightness by minimizing the effects of inconsistent illumination conditions. Detailed experiments have been conducted using the publicly available colonoscopy databases CVC ClinicDB, CVC ColonDB and the ETIS Larib. The performance measures are found to be in terms of precision (91.69%), recall (81.53%), F1-score (86.31%) and F2-score (89.45%) for the CVC ColonDB database and precision (90.29%), recall (61.73%), F1-score (73.32%) and F2-score (82.64%) for the ETIS Larib database. Comparison with the futuristic method shows that the proposed approach surpasses the existing one in terms of precision, F1-score, and F2-score. The proposed enhancement with saliency-based selection significantly reduced the number of search windows, resulting in an efficient polyp detection algorithm.

scholarly journals Automatic segmentation and recognition of red and white cells in stool microscopic images of human

2020 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 03024
Author(s):  
Guanghui Kong ◽  
Zhiyong Wang ◽  
Xiuchao Wan ◽  
Fengjun Xue
Keyword(s):  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Microscopic Images ◽  
Initial Segmentation ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Watershed Method

Aiming to solve the problem of low efficiency in manually recognizing the red and white cells in stool microscopic images, we propose an automatic segmentation method based on iterative corrosion with marker-controlled watershed segmentation and an automatic recognition method based on support vector machine (SVM) classification. The method first obtains saliency map of the images in HSI and Lab color spaces through saliency detection algorithm, then fuses the salient images to complete the initial segmentation. Next, we segment the red and white cells completely based on the initial segmentation images using marker-controlled watershed algorithm and other complementary methods. According to the differences in geometrical and texture features of red and white cells such as area, perimeter, circularity, energy, entropy, correlation and contrast, we extract them as feature vectors to train SVM and finally complete the classification and recognition of red and white cells. The experimental results indicate that our proposed marker-controlled watershed method can help increase the segmentation and recognition accuracy. Moreover, since it is also less susceptible to the heteromorphic red and white cells, our method is effective and robust.

scholarly journals Salient Region Detection by Fusing Foreground and Background Cues Extracted from Single Image

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangqiang Zhou ◽  
Weidong Zhao ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Zhicheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Local Contrast ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Color Distribution ◽  
Salient Region Detection ◽  
Region Detection ◽  
Application Fields

Saliency detection is an important preprocessing step in many application fields such as computer vision, robotics, and graphics to reduce computational cost by focusing on significant positions and neglecting the nonsignificant in the scene. Different from most previous methods which mainly utilize the contrast of low-level features, various feature maps are fused in a simple linear weighting form. In this paper, we propose a novel salient object detection algorithm which takes both background and foreground cues into consideration and integrate a bottom-up coarse salient regions extraction and a top-down background measure via boundary labels propagation into a unified optimization framework to acquire a refined saliency detection result. Wherein the coarse saliency map is also fused by three components, the first is local contrast map which is in more accordance with the psychological law, the second is global frequency prior map, and the third is global color distribution map. During the formation of background map, first we construct an affinity matrix and select some nodes which lie on border as labels to represent the background and then carry out a propagation to generate the regional background map. The evaluation of the proposed model has been implemented on four datasets. As demonstrated in the experiments, our proposed method outperforms most existing saliency detection models with a robust performance.

scholarly journals Research on an Infrared Multi-Target Saliency Detection Algorithm under Sky Background Conditions

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Shaosheng Dai ◽  
Dongyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Infrared Image ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Phase Spectrum ◽  
Background Suppression ◽  
Suppression Effect ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Saliency Maps ◽  
Image Saliency

Aiming at solving the problem of incomplete saliency detection and unclear boundaries in infrared multi-target images with different target sizes and low signal-to-noise ratio under sky background conditions, this paper proposes a saliency detection method for multiple targets based on multi-saliency detection. The multiple target areas of the infrared image are mainly bright and the background areas are dark. Combining with the multi-scale top hat (Top-hat) transformation, the image is firstly corroded and expanded to extract the subtraction of light and shade parts and reconstruct the image to reduce the interference of sky blurred background noise. Then the image obtained by a multi-scale Top-hat transformation is transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain, and the spectral residuals and phase spectrum are extracted directly to obtain two kinds of image saliency maps by multi-scale Gauss filtering reconstruction, respectively. On the other hand, the quaternion features are extracted directly to transform the phase spectrum, and then the phase spectrum is reconstructed to obtain one kind of image saliency map by the Gauss filtering. Finally, the above three saliency maps are fused to complete the saliency detection of infrared images. The test results show that after the experimental analysis of infrared video photographs and the comparative analysis of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve and Area Under the Curve (AUC) index, the infrared image saliency map generated by this method has clear target details and good background suppression effect, and the AUC index performance is good, reaching over 99%. It effectively improves the multi-target saliency detection effect of the infrared image under the sky background and is beneficial to subsequent detection and tracking of image targets.

Multi-Frame Image Fusion Method Combining Spatial-Temporal Saliency Detection and NSCT

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 1927-1932
Author(s):  
Hai Peng ◽  
Hua Jun Feng ◽  
Ju Feng Zhao ◽  
Zhi Hai Xu ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Fusion ◽  
Feature Detection ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Fusion Method ◽  
Threshold Method ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Image Fusion Method

We propose a new image fusion method to fuse the frames of infrared and visual image sequences more effectively. In our method, we introduce an improved salient feature detection algorithm to achieve the saliency map of the original frames. This improved method can detect not only spatially but also temporally salient features using dynamic information of inter-frames. Images are then segmented into target regions and background regions based on saliency distribution. We formulate fusion rules for different regions using a double threshold method and finally fuse the image frames in NSCT multi-scale domain. Comparison of different methods shows that our result is a more effective one to stress salient features of target regions and maintain details of background regions from the original image sequences.

scholarly journals A novel attention model for salient structure detection in seismic volumes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amir Shafiq ◽  
◽  
Zhiling Long ◽  
Haibin Di ◽  
Ghassan AlRegib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Spectral Projection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Seismic Interpretation ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Attention Model ◽  
Saliency Maps

<abstract><p>A new approach to seismic interpretation is proposed to leverage visual perception and human visual system modeling. Specifically, a saliency detection algorithm based on a novel attention model is proposed for identifying subsurface structures within seismic data volumes. The algorithm employs 3D-FFT and a multi-dimensional spectral projection, which decomposes local spectra into three distinct components, each depicting variations along different dimensions of the data. Subsequently, a novel directional center-surround attention model is proposed to incorporate directional comparisons around each voxel for saliency detection within each projected dimension. Next, the resulting saliency maps along each dimension are combined adaptively to yield a consolidated saliency map, which highlights various structures characterized by subtle variations and relative motion with respect to their neighboring sections. A priori information about the seismic data can be either embedded into the proposed attention model in the directional comparisons, or incorporated into the algorithm by specifying a template when combining saliency maps adaptively. Experimental results on two real seismic datasets from the North Sea, Netherlands and Great South Basin, New Zealand demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for detecting salient seismic structures of different natures and appearances in one shot, which differs significantly from traditional seismic interpretation algorithms. The results further demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms comparable state-of-the-art saliency detection algorithms for natural images and videos, which are inadequate for seismic imaging data.</p></abstract>

scholarly journals The Study of Randomized Visual Saliency Detection Algorithm

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yuantao Chen ◽  
Weihong Xu ◽  
Fangjun Kuang ◽  
Shangbing Gao
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Visual Saliency ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Segmentation Process ◽  
Visual Saliency Detection

Image segmentation process for high quality visual saliency map is very dependent on the existing visual saliency metrics. It is mostly only get sketchy effect of saliency map, and roughly based visual saliency map will affect the image segmentation results. The paper had presented the randomized visual saliency detection algorithm. The randomized visual saliency detection method can quickly generate the same size as the original input image and detailed results of the saliency map. The randomized saliency detection method can be applied to real-time requirements for image content-based scaling saliency results map. The randomization method for fast randomized video saliency area detection, the algorithm only requires a small amount of memory space can be detected detailed oriented visual saliency map, the presented results are shown that the method of visual saliency map used in image after the segmentation process can be an ideal segmentation results.

scholarly journals Saliency Detection with Sparse Prototypes: An Approach Based on Multi-Dictionary Sparse Encoding

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Zemin Wu ◽  
Chang Tian ◽  
Lei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Sparse Recovery ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
High Background ◽  
Weighted Fusion ◽  
Public Datasets

This paper proposes a bottom-up saliency detection algorithm based on multi-dictionary sparse recovery. Firstly, the SLIC algorithm is used to segment the image into superpixels in multilevel and atoms with a high background possibility are selected from the boundary superpixels to construct the multidictionary. Secondly, sparse recovery of the entire image is achieved using multi-dictionary to get subsaliency maps from the perspective of sparse recovery errors. The final saliency map is generated in a weighted fusion manner. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.

SALIENCY-BASED UNSUPERVISED IMAGE MATTING

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 1454001 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUANGHUA TAN ◽  
JUN QI ◽  
CHUNMING GAO ◽  
JIN CHEN ◽  
LIYUAN ZHUO
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Laplacian Matrix ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
The State ◽  
Image Matting ◽  
Feedback Scheme ◽  
Alpha Matte

Spectral matting is the state-of-the-art matting method and can well solve the highly under-conditioned matte problem without manual intervention. However, it suffers from huge computation cost and inaccurate alpha matte. This paper presents a modified spectral matting method which combines saliency detection algorithm to get a higher accuracy of alpha matte with less computational cost. First, the saliency detection algorithm is used to detect general locations of foreground objects. For saliency detection method, original two-stage scheme is replaced by feedback scheme to get a more suitable saliency map for unsupervised image matting. Next, matting components are obtained through a linear transformation of the smallest eigenvectors of the matting Laplacian matrix. Then, the improved saliency map is used for grouping matting components. Finally, the alpha matte is obtained based on matte cost function. Experiments show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods based on spectral matting both in speed and alpha matte accuracy.

Saliency Detection Based on Multi-Scale Superpixel and Dictionary Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 348-351
Author(s):  
Gang Hou ◽  
He Xin Yan ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Hui Rong Hou ◽  
Ming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Dictionary Learning ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Visual Saliency ◽  
Scale Space ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Reconstruction Error ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Scale Spaces

In recent years, saliency detection has been gaining increasing attention since it could significantly boost many content-based multimedia applications. In this paper, we propose a visual saliency detection algorithm based on multi-scale superpixel and dictionary learning . Firstly, in each scale space, we extract the boundaries as the training samples to learn a dictionary through sparse coding and dictionary learning methods. Then, according to reconstruction error of each superpixel, the saliency map is generated for each scale of superpixel. Finally, some saliency maps from different scale spaces are fused together to generate the final saliency map. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can highlight the salient regions uniformly and performs better compared with the other five methods.

Visual saliency and potential field data enhancements: Where is your attention drawn?

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. SJ9-SJ21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yathunanthan Sivarajah ◽  
Eun-Jung Holden ◽  
Roberto Togneri ◽  
Michael Dentith ◽  
Mark Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Feature Detection ◽  
Saliency Detection ◽  
Visual Saliency ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Potential Field Data

Interpretation of gravity and magnetic data for exploration applications may be based on pattern recognition in which geophysical signatures of geologic features associated with localized characteristics are sought within data. A crucial control on what comprises noticeable and comparable characteristics in a data set is how images displaying those data are enhanced. Interpreters are provided with various image enhancement and display tools to assist their interpretation, although the effectiveness of these tools to improve geologic feature detection is difficult to measure. We addressed this challenge by analyzing how image enhancement methods impact the interpreter’s visual attention when interpreting the data because features that are more salient to the human visual system are more likely to be noticed. We used geologic target-spotting exercises within images generated from magnetic data to assess commonly used magnetic data visualization methods for their visual saliency. Our aim was achieved in two stages. In the first stage, we identified a suitable saliency detection algorithm that can computationally predict visual attention of magnetic data interpreters. The computer vision community has developed various image saliency detection algorithms, and we assessed which algorithm best matches the interpreter’s data observation patterns for magnetic target-spotting exercises. In the second stage, we applied this saliency detection algorithm to understand potential visual biases for commonly used magnetic data enhancement methods. We developed a guide to choosing image enhancement methods, based on saliency maps that minimize unintended visual biases in magnetic data interpretation, and some recommendations for identifying exploration targets in different types of magnetic data.

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