Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is the third most dangerous cancer in the world and also increasing day by day. So, timely and accurate diagnosis is required to save the life of patients. Cancer grows from polyps which can be either cancerous or noncancerous. So, if the cancerous polyps are detected accurately and removed on time, then the dangerous consequences of cancer can be reduced to a large extent. The colonoscopy is used to detect the presence of colorectal polyps. However, manual examinations performed by experts are prone to various errors. Therefore, some researchers have utilized machine and deep learning-based models to automate the diagnosis process. However, existing models suffer from overfitting and gradient vanishing problems. To overcome these problems, a convolutional neural network- (CNN-) based deep learning model is proposed. Initially, guided image filter and dynamic histogram equalization approaches are used to filter and enhance the colonoscopy images. Thereafter, Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) is used to efficiently detect and classify colorectal polyps from colonoscopy images. Finally, fully connected layers with dropouts are used to classify the polyp classes. Extensive experimental results on benchmark dataset show that the proposed model achieves significantly better results than the competitive models. The proposed model can detect and classify colorectal polyps from the colonoscopy images with 92% accuracy.
The information hidden in an image is worth more than a thousand words. Proper analysis of a medical image can help in timely detection and diagnose of a disease which increases the rate of survival of cancer patients. Analysis of images manually is subjective and time consuming. On
the other hand, automated analysis of a medical image has a lot of challenges due to the architecture and colors of the medical images. This paper, gives a survey on detection, classification and diagnosis of colorectal cancer and proposes a deep learning based techniques to differentiate
between healthy tissues and cancerous polyps in histology images. It also compares the accuracy of three different classification frameworks namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). It also presents the overview of the
work done in this field. It first discusses basic deep learning methods and then the known techniques used for detection, classification and diagnosis of colorectal cancer followed by the comparative analysis of all the surveyed paper. Finally, it talks about the conclusion, challenges and
the future scope of the progress in this field.
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