Abstract
Colposcopy is a crucial imaging technique for finding cervical abnormalities. Colposcopic image evaluation, particularly the accurate delineation of the cervix region, has considerable medical significance.Before segmenting the cervical region, specular reflection removal is an efficient one. Because, cervical cancer can be found using a visual check with acetic acid, which turns precancerous and cancerous areas whiteand these could be viewed as signs of abnormalities. Similarly, bright white regions known as specular reflections obstruct the identification of aceto-whiteareas and should therefore be removed. So, in this paper, specular reflection removal with segmentingthe cervix region ina colposcopy image is proposed. The proposed approach consists of two main stages, namely, pre-processing and segmentation. In the pre-processing stage, specular reflections are detected and removed using a swin transformer. After that, cervical regions are segmented using an enhanced Gaussian mixture model (EGMM). For better segmentation accuracy, the best parameters of GMM are chosen via the adaptive Mexican Axolotl Optimization (AMAO) algorithm. The performance of the proposed approach is analyzed based on accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, Jaccard index, and dice coefficient, and the efficiency of the suggested strategy is compared with various methods.
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Mukku, L., Thomas, J. EGMM: removal of specular reflection with cervical region segmentation using enhanced Gaussian mixture model in cervix images. Multimed Tools Appl (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-19035-9
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