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Automated bleeding detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images based on color feature extraction from Gaussian mixture model superpixels

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Wireless capsule endoscopy is the commonly employed modality in the treatment of gastrointestinal tract pathologies. However, the time taken for interpretation of these images is very high due to the large volume of images generated. Automated detection of disorders with these images can facilitate faster clinical interventions. In this paper, we propose an automated system based on Gaussian mixture model superpixels for bleeding detection and segmentation of candidate regions. The proposed system is realized with a classic binary support vector machine classifier trained with seven features including color and texture attributes extracted from the Gaussian mixture model superpixels of the WCE images. On detection of bleeding images, bleeding regions are segmented from them, by incrementally grouping the superpixels based on deltaE color differences. Tested with standard datasets, this system exhibits best performance compared to the state-of-the-art approaches with respect to classification accuracy, feature selection, computational time, and segmentation accuracy. The proposed system achieves 99.88% accuracy, 99.83% sensitivity, and 100% specificity signifying the effectiveness of the proposed system in bleeding detection with very few classification errors.

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Rathnamala, S., Jenicka, S. Automated bleeding detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images based on color feature extraction from Gaussian mixture model superpixels. Med Biol Eng Comput 59, 969–987 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-021-02352-8

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