PolypGen: A multi-center polyp detection and segmentation dataset for generalisability assessment.

作者：Sharib Ali, Debesh Jha, Noha Ghatwary, Stefano Realdon, Renato Cannizzaro, Osama E. Salem, Dominique Lamarque, Christian Daul, Kim Vidar Ånonsen, Michael A. Riegler, Pål Halvorsen, Jens Rittscher, Thomas de Lange, James E. East · 发表于：arXiv (Cornell University) · 年份：2021 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection、Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Polyps in the colon are widely known as cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy either related to diagnostic work-up for symptoms, colorectal cancer screening or systematic surveillance of certain diseases. Whilst most polyps are benign, the number, size and the surface structure of the polyp are tightly linked to the risk of colon cancer. There exists a high missed detection rate and incomplete removal of colon polyps due to the variable nature, difficulties to delineate the abnormality, high recurrence rates and the anatomical topography of the colon. In the past, several methods have been built to automate polyp detection and segmentation. However, the key issue of most methods is that they have not been tested rigorously on a large multi-center purpose-built dataset. Thus, these methods may not generalise to different population datasets as they overfit to a specific population and endoscopic surveillance. To this extent, we have curated a dataset from 6 different centers incorporating more than 300 patients. The dataset includes both single frame and sequence data with 3446 annotated polyp labels with precise delineation of polyp boundaries verified by six senior gastroenterologists. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive detection and pixel-level segmentation dataset curated by a team of computational scientists and expert gastroenterologists. This dataset has been originated as the part of the Endocv2021 challenge aimed at addressing generalisability in p...