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  • Medical imaging analysis
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare
  • Gastroenterology

Background:

  • Ulcerative colitis (UC) endoscopic image classification is challenging due to imbalanced datasets.
  • Accurate positive predictions are crucial, especially with increasing disease severity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a multi-task learning (MTL) framework for UC endoscopic image classification.
  • To address data imbalance issues and improve detection of advanced disease stages.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an MTL framework inspired by human brain processing.
  • Evaluated the framework on UC endoscopic images, focusing on disease stage classification.
  • Utilized DenseNet121 and MobileNet-v3-large as model backbones.

Main Results:

  • The MTL framework effectively mitigated data imbalance issues.
  • Classification performance was enhanced for severe UC disease stages (Mayo scores 2 and 3).
  • DenseNet121 showed superior performance; MobileNet-v3-large also demonstrated gains, indicating framework versatility.

Conclusions:

  • MTL-based computer-aided diagnosis aids in accurate identification of critical UC stages.
  • This supports timely treatment decisions and reduces underdiagnosis.
  • Future work should explore integrating multiple CNN models to further improve accuracy.