Summary of Sstfb: Leveraging Self-supervised Pretext Learning and Temporal Self-attention with Feature Branching For Real-time Video Polyp Segmentation, by Ziang Xu et al.
SSTFB: Leveraging self-supervised pretext learning and temporal self-attention with feature branching for real-time video polyp segmentation
by Ziang Xu, Jens Rittscher, Sharib Ali
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: The paper presents a novel approach for segmenting polyps in colonoscopy videos, which is crucial for early cancer detection. Current methods struggle with real-world scenarios due to imaging artefacts, motion blur, and debris. Our proposed video polyp segmentation method uses self-supervised learning as an auxiliary task and spatial-temporal self-attention mechanisms for improved feature learning. The end-to-end configuration and joint loss optimisation enable the network to learn more discriminative contextual features in videos. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, our approach shows significant improvements in accuracy on several metrics, including Dice similarity coefficient and intersection-over-union. Our ablation study also confirms that joint end-to-end training improves network accuracy by over 3% and nearly 10%. The proposed method generalises well on unseen video data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: Scientists are working to improve cancer detection by finding tiny growths called polyps in the colon. To do this, they need to accurately identify these polyps from videos taken during a special camera exam called a colonoscopy. This is tricky because the images can be blurry or distorted, and there might be debris in the way. The researchers developed a new method to solve this problem using artificial intelligence. Their approach is more accurate than other methods and can handle real-world video data. This means it could potentially help doctors find polyps earlier and improve cancer treatment outcomes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Self attention » Self supervised
