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    • Medical Imaging
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Oncology

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    • Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death globally.
    • Early detection and removal of colorectal polyps via colonoscopy significantly reduce CRC mortality.
    • High false-negative rates in manual polyp detection during colonoscopy remain a challenge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an automated polyp detection system using deep learning.
    • To improve the accuracy and efficiency of polyp identification during colonoscopy.
    • To reduce the false-negative rate in colorectal polyp detection.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a novel anchor-free instance segmentation framework for polyp localization and mask generation.
    • Developed a two-branch architecture: object detection and mask generation.
    • Utilized a compact vector representation for mask encoding, trainable with object detectors.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved 99.36% precision and 96.44% recall on public datasets.
    • Outperformed existing anchor-free instance segmentation methods by at least 2.8% in mIoU on a private dataset.
    • Demonstrated the framework's effectiveness in localizing polyps and generating instance-level masks.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed anchor-free instance segmentation framework shows high efficacy for automated polyp detection.
    • This AI-driven approach has the potential to assist physicians in reducing missed polyps during colonoscopy.
    • The novel encoding method enables effective integration of instance segmentation with object detection.