Title
A segmentation-based approach for polyp counting in the wild
Abstract
We address the problem of jellyfish polyp counting in underwater images. Modern methods utilize convolutional neural networks for feature extraction and work in two stages. First, hypothetical regions are proposed at potential locations, the features of the regions are extracted and classified according to the contained object. Such methods typically require a dense grid for region proposals, explicitly test various scales and are prone to failure in densely populated regions. We propose a segmentation-based polyp counter — SegCo. A convolutional neural network is trained to produce locally-circular segmentation masks on the polyps, which are then detected by localizing circularly symmetric areas in the segmented image. Detection stage is efficient and avoids a greedy search over position and scales. SegCo outperforms the current state-of-the-art object detector RetinaNet (Lin et al., 2017) and the recent specialized polyp detection method PoCo (Vodopivec et al., 2018) by 2% and 24% in F-score, respectively, and sets a new state-of-the-art in polyp detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.engappai.2019.103399
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Circular object detection,Semantic segmentation,Automated counting,Jellyfish polyp,Convolutional neural network
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Segmentation,Greedy algorithm,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Detector,Grid,Machine learning,Underwater
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
88
0952-1976
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vitjan Zavrtanik131.11
Martin Vodopivec200.34
Matej Kristan396047.02