Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network

Colorectal cancer is a dangerous disease with a high mortality rate. To increase the likelihood of successful treatment, early detection of polyps is a useful solution. The Unet-architecture network model is showing success in medical image segmentation including analysis of polyps from colonoscopy...

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Main Authors: Song-Toan Tran, Minh-Hoa Nguyen, Huu-Phuc Dang, Thanh-Tan Nguyen
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9801845/
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author Song-Toan Tran
Minh-Hoa Nguyen
Huu-Phuc Dang
Thanh-Tan Nguyen
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Minh-Hoa Nguyen
Huu-Phuc Dang
Thanh-Tan Nguyen
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description Colorectal cancer is a dangerous disease with a high mortality rate. To increase the likelihood of successful treatment, early detection of polyps is a useful solution. The Unet-architecture network model is showing success in medical image segmentation including analysis of polyps from colonoscopy images. Traditional Unet and Unet-based models are often huge, requiring training and deployment with a high-performance system. Designing models with compact size and high-performance would be an important goal. In this study, we proposed to modify the Residual Recurrent Unet architecture to improve the size of the model while ensuring the model performance. The proposed model has flexibility in changing the number of filters in convolution units. By taking advantage of the strengths of residual and recurrent structures in terms of reuse of convolutional functions, the new model, therefore, was not only smaller in size but also has superior performance compared to the traditional Unet model and the others. The evaluations were performed on three public Colonoscopy image datasets: CVC-ClinicDB, ETIS-LaribPolypDB, and CVC-ColonDB. The Dice score on CVC-ClinicDB reached 94.59%, ETIS-LaribPolypDB reached 92.73%, and 93.31% on CVC-ColonDB dataset. The experimental results obtained from the proposed network on datasets were better than those in recent related studies. The introduced model has a smaller size than the traditional model nevertheless has outstanding performance, therefore, it would be extremely productive for developing applications on low-performance devices.
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spelling doaj.art-5048c980ea9c4134a8f72c283197f1a62022-12-22T03:33:05ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110659516596110.1109/ACCESS.2022.31847739801845Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet NetworkSong-Toan Tran0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8329-0036Minh-Hoa Nguyen1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6494-7779Huu-Phuc Dang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9643-7287Thanh-Tan Nguyen3Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, VietnamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, VietnamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, VietnamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, VietnamColorectal cancer is a dangerous disease with a high mortality rate. To increase the likelihood of successful treatment, early detection of polyps is a useful solution. The Unet-architecture network model is showing success in medical image segmentation including analysis of polyps from colonoscopy images. Traditional Unet and Unet-based models are often huge, requiring training and deployment with a high-performance system. Designing models with compact size and high-performance would be an important goal. In this study, we proposed to modify the Residual Recurrent Unet architecture to improve the size of the model while ensuring the model performance. The proposed model has flexibility in changing the number of filters in convolution units. By taking advantage of the strengths of residual and recurrent structures in terms of reuse of convolutional functions, the new model, therefore, was not only smaller in size but also has superior performance compared to the traditional Unet model and the others. The evaluations were performed on three public Colonoscopy image datasets: CVC-ClinicDB, ETIS-LaribPolypDB, and CVC-ColonDB. The Dice score on CVC-ClinicDB reached 94.59%, ETIS-LaribPolypDB reached 92.73%, and 93.31% on CVC-ColonDB dataset. The experimental results obtained from the proposed network on datasets were better than those in recent related studies. The introduced model has a smaller size than the traditional model nevertheless has outstanding performance, therefore, it would be extremely productive for developing applications on low-performance devices.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9801845/Colonoscopy imagemedical image segmentationpolyp segmentationrecurrent residual structureUnet architecture
spellingShingle Song-Toan Tran
Minh-Hoa Nguyen
Huu-Phuc Dang
Thanh-Tan Nguyen
Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
IEEE Access
Colonoscopy image
medical image segmentation
polyp segmentation
recurrent residual structure
Unet architecture
title Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
title_full Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
title_fullStr Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
title_short Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Modified Recurrent Residual Unet Network
title_sort automatic polyp segmentation using modified recurrent residual unet network
topic Colonoscopy image
medical image segmentation
polyp segmentation
recurrent residual structure
Unet architecture
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9801845/
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