Colonoscopy is essential for examining colorectal polyp or cancer. Examining colonoscopy has allowed for a reduction in the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer through the detection and removal of polyps. However, missed polyp rate during colonoscopy has been reported as approximately 24% and intra- and inter-observer variability for polyp detection rates among endoscopists has been an issue. In this paper, we propose a real-time deep learning-based colorectal polyp detection system called SmartEndo-Net. To extract the polyp information, ResNet-50 is used in the backbone. To enable high-level feature fusion, extra mix-up edges in all level of the fusion feature pyramid network (FPN) are added. Fusion features are fed to a class and box network to produce object class and bounding box prediction. SmartEndo-Net is compared with Yolo-V3, SSD, and Faster R-CNN. SmartEndo-Net recorded sensitivity of 92.17% and proposed network was higher 7.96%, 6.78%, and 10.05% than Yolo-V3, SSD, and Faster R-CNN. SmartEndo-Net showed stable detection results regardless of polyp size, shape, and surrounding structures.
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