Main description:

This book opens with an introduction to the main purpose and tasks of the GIANA challenge, as well as a summary and an analysis of the results and performance obtained by the 20 participating teams. The early and accurate diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases is critical for increasing the chances of patient survival, and efficient screening is vital for locating precursor lesions. Video colonoscopy and wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) are the gold-standard tools for colon and intestinal tract screening, respectively. Yet these tools still present some drawbacks, such as lesion miss rate, lack of in vivo diagnosis capabilities, and perforation risk. To mitigate these, computer-aided detection/diagnosis systems can play a key role in assisting clinicians in the different stages of the exploration.
This book presents the latest, state-of-the-art approaches in this field, and also tackles the clinical considerations required to efficiently deploy these systems in the exploration room. The coverage draws upon results from the Gastrointestinal Image Analysis (GIANA) Challenge, part of the EndoVis satellite events of the conferences MICCAI 2017 and 2018. Each method proposed to address the different subtasks of the challenges is detailed in a separate chapter, offering a deep insight into this topic of interest for public health.
This book appeals to researchers, practitioners, and lecturers spanning both the computer vision and gastroenterology communities.

Contents:

1. Clinical context for Intelligent Systems in Colonoscopy.- 2. Clinical context for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Image Analysis.- 3. Technical Context for Intelligent Systems in Colonoscopy.- 4. Technical Context for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy image analysis.- 5. Combination of Color-based Segmentation, Markov Random Fields and Multilayer Perceptron.- 6. Hand Crafted Method: ROI Selection and Texture Description.- 7. AECNN: Adversarial and Enhanced Convolutional Neural Networks.- 8. Dilated ResFCN and SE-Unet for Polyp Segmentation.- 9. Multi-encoder Decoder Network for Polyp Detection.- 10. Multi-resolution Multi-task Network and Polyp Tracking.