Gastric polyp detection in gastroscopic images using deep neural network.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

This paper presents the research results of detecting gastric polyps with deep learning object detection method in gastroscopic images. Gastric polyps have various sizes. The difficulty of polyp detection is that small polyps are difficult to detect from the background. We propose a feature extraction and fusion module and combine it with the YOLOv3 network to form our network. This method performs better than other methods in the detection of small polyps because it can fuse the semantic information of high-level feature maps with low-level feature maps to help small polyps detection. In this work, we use a dataset of gastric polyps created by ourselves, containing 1433 training images and 508 validation images. We train and validate our network on our dataset. In comparison with other methods of polyps detection, our method has a significant improvement in precision, recall rate, F1, and F2 score. The precision, recall rate, F1 score, and F2 score of our method can achieve 91.6%, 86.2%, 88.8%, and 87.2%.

Authors

  • Chanting Cao
    Beijing Engineering Research Center of Industrial Spectrum Imaging, School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
  • Ruilin Wang
    Beijing Engineering Research Center of Industrial Spectrum Imaging, School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
  • Yao Yu
    AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Hui Zhang
    Department of Pulmonary Vessel and Thrombotic Disease, Sixth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • Ying Yu
    School of Chemistry and Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biomedicine, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China. Electronic address: yuyhs@scnu.edu.cn.
  • Changyin Sun
    School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China. Electronic address: cys@ustb.edu.cn.