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Author Fernando Vilariño
Title (up) A Machine Learning Approach for Intestinal Motility Assessment with Capsule Endoscopy Type Book Whole
Year 2006 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Intestinal motility assessment with video capsule endoscopy arises as a novel and challenging clinical fieldwork. This technique is based on the analysis of the patterns of intestinal contractions obtained by labelling all the motility events present in a video provided by a capsule with a wireless micro-camera, which is ingested by the patient. However, the visual analysis of these video sequences presents several im- portant drawbacks, mainly related to both the large amount of time needed for the visualization process, and the low prevalence of intestinal contractions in video.
In this work we propose a machine learning system to automatically detect the intestinal contractions in video capsule endoscopy, driving a very useful but not fea- sible clinical routine into a feasible clinical procedure. Our proposal is divided into two different parts: The first part tackles the problem of the automatic detection of phasic contractions in capsule endoscopy videos. Phasic contractions are dynamic events spanning about 4-5 seconds, which show visual patterns with a high variability. Our proposal is based on a sequential design which involves the analysis of textural, color and blob features with powerful classifiers such as SVM. This approach appears to cope with two basic aims: the reduction of the imbalance rate of the data set, and the modular construction of the system, which adds the capability of including domain knowledge as new stages in the cascade. The second part of the current work tackles the problem of the automatic detection of tonic contractions. Tonic contrac- tions manifest in capsule endoscopy as a sustained pattern of the folds and wrinkles of the intestine, which may be prolonged for an undetermined span of time. Our proposal is based on the analysis of the wrinkle patterns, presenting a comparative study of diverse features and classification methods, and providing a set of appro- priate descriptors for their characterization. We provide a detailed analysis of the performance achieved by our system both in a qualitative and a quantitative way.
Address CVC (UAB)
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Petia Radeva
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue 84-933652-7-0 Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Vil2006; IAM @ iam @ Vil2006 Serial 738
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Jordi Vitria; Carolina Malagelada; Petia Radeva
Title (up) A Machine Learning framework using SOMs: Applications in the Intestinal Motility Assessment Type Book Chapter
Year 2006 Publication 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4225 Issue Pages 188–197
Keywords
Abstract Small Bowel Motility Assessment by means of Wireless Capsule Video Endoscopy constitutes a novel clinical methodology in which a capsule with a micro-camera attached to it is swallowed by the patient, emitting a RF signal which is recorded as a video of its trip throughout the gut. In order to overcome the main drawbacks associated with this technique -mainly related to the large amount of visualization time required-, our efforts have been focused on the development of a machine learning system, built up in sequential stages, which provides the specialists with the useful part of the video, rejecting those parts not valid for analysis. We successfully used Self Organized Maps in a general semi-supervised framework with the aim of tackling the different learning stages of our system. The analysis of the diverse types of images and the automatic detection of intestinal contractions is performed under the perspective of intestinal motility assessment in a clinical environment.
Address Cancun (Mexico)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Verlag Place of Publication Berlin-Heidelberg Editor J.P. Martinez–Trinidad et al
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference CIARP06
Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VSV2006d; IAM @ iam @ VSV2006e Serial 729
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
Title (up) A Region Segmentation Method for Colonoscopy Images Using a Model of Polyp Appearance Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6669 Issue Pages 134-143   
Keywords Colonoscopy, Polyp Detection, Region Merging, Region Segmentation.
Abstract This work aims at the segmentation of colonoscopy images into a minimum number of informative regions. Our method performs in a way such, if a polyp is present in the image, it will be exclusively and totally contained in a single region. This result can be used in later stages to classify regions as polyp-containing candidates. The output of the algorithm also defines which regions can be considered as non-informative. The algorithm starts with a high number of initial regions and merges them taking into account the model of polyp appearance obtained from available data. The results show that our segmentations of polyp regions are more accurate than state-of-the-art methods.
Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 2011
Corporate Author SpringerLink Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Vitrià, Jordi and Sanches, João and Hernández, Mario
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference IbPRIA
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ BSV2011c Serial 1696
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Author Carles Sanchez;F. Javier Sanchez; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
Title (up) An illumination model of the trachea appearance in videobronchoscopy images Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal LNCS
Volume 7325 Issue Pages 313-320
Keywords Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, stenosis assesment, trachea appearance model, segmentation
Abstract Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways. This imaging modality provides realistic images and allows non-invasive minimal intervention procedures. Tracheal procedures are routinary interventions that require assessment of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) detection. Visual assessment in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error.
This paper introduces an automatic method for the estimation of steneosed trachea percentage reduction in videobronchoscopic images. We look for tracheal rings , whose deformation determines the degree of obstruction. For ring extraction , we present a ring detector based on an illumination and appearance model. This model allows us to parametrise the ring detection. Finally, we can infer optimal estimation parameters for any video resolution.
Address Aveiro, Portugal
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-31297-7 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes MV;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ SSR2012 Serial 1898
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Author Panagiota Spyridonos; Fernando Vilariño; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva
Title (up) Anisotropic Feature Extraction from Endoluminal Images for Detection of Intestinal Contractions Type Book Chapter
Year 2006 Publication 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer–Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4191 Issue Pages 161–168
Keywords
Abstract Wireless endoscopy is a very recent and at the same time unique technique allowing to visualize and study the occurrence of con- tractions and to analyze the intestine motility. Feature extraction is es- sential for getting efficient patterns to detect contractions in wireless video endoscopy of small intestine. We propose a novel method based on anisotropic image filtering and efficient statistical classification of con- traction features. In particular, we apply the image gradient tensor for mining informative skeletons from the original image and a sequence of descriptors for capturing the characteristic pattern of contractions. Fea- tures extracted from the endoluminal images were evaluated in terms of their discriminatory ability in correct classifying images as either belong- ing to contractions or not. Classification was performed by means of a support vector machine classifier with a radial basis function kernel. Our classification rates gave sensitivity of the order of 90.84% and specificity of the order of 94.43% respectively. These preliminary results highlight the high efficiency of the selected descriptors and support the feasibility of the proposed method in assisting the automatic detection and analysis of contractions.
Address Copenhagen (Denmark)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Verlag Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor R. Larsen, M. Nielsen, and J. Sporring
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference MICCAI06
Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SVV2006; IAM @ iam @ SVV2006 Serial 725
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva
Title (up) Automatic Detection of Intestinal Juices in Wireless Capsule Video Endoscopy Type Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue Pages 719-722
Keywords Clinical diagnosis , Endoscopes , Fluids and secretions , Gabor filters , Hospitals , Image sequence analysis , Intestines , Lighting , Shape , Visualization
Abstract Wireless capsule video endoscopy is a novel and challenging clinical technique, whose major reported drawback relates to the high amount of time needed for video visualization. In this paper, we propose a method for the rejection of the parts of the video resulting not valid for analysis by means of automatic detection of intestinal juices. We applied Gabor filters for the characterization of the bubble-like shape of intestinal juices in fasting patients. Our method achieves a significant reduction in visualization time, with no relevant loss of valid frames. The proposed approach is easily extensible to other image analysis scenarios where the described pattern of bubbles can be found.
Address Hong Kong
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 0-7695-2521-0 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VSV2006b; IAM @ iam @ VSV2006g Serial 727
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Gerard Lacey; Jiang Zhou; Hugh Mulcahy; Stephen Patchett
Title (up) Automatic Labeling of Colonoscopy Video for Cancer Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication In Proc. berian Conference, IbPRIA Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 290-297
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Abstract
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2431
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Author Mirko Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Stephen Ameling; G Lacey
Title (up) Automatic segmentation and inpainting of specular highlights for endoscopic imaging Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIP JIVP
Volume 2010 Issue 9 Pages
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Abstract
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV Approved no
Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2423
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Author Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
Title (up) Blood Vessel Characterization in Colonoscopy Images to Improve Polyp Localization Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue Pages 162-171
Keywords Colonoscopy; Blood vessel; Linear features; Valley detection
Abstract This paper presents an approach to mitigate the contribution of blood vessels to the energy image used at different tasks of automatic colonoscopy image analysis. This goal is achieved by introducing a characterization of endoluminal scene objects which allows us to differentiate between the trace of 2-dimensional visual objects,such as vessels, and shades from 3-dimensional visual objects, such as folds. The proposed characterization is based on the influence that the object shape has in the resulting visual feature, and it leads to the development of a blood vessel attenuation algorithm. A database consisting of manually labelled masks was built in order to test the performance of our method, which shows an encouraging success in blood vessel mitigation while keeping other structures intact. Moreover, by extending our method to the only available polyp localization
algorithm tested on a public database, blood vessel mitigation proved to have a positive influence on the overall performance.
Address Barcelona; February 2013
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher SciTePress Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference VISIGRAPP
Notes MV; 600.054; 600.057;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ NBS2013 Serial 2198
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva
Title (up) Cascade analysis for intestinal contraction detection Type Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication 20th International Congress and exhibition Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 9-10
Keywords intestine video analysis, anisotropic features, support vector machine, cascade of classifiers
Abstract In this work, we address the study of intestinal contractions in a novel approach based on a machine learning framework to process data from Wireless Capsule Video Endoscopy. Wireless endoscopy represents a unique way to visualize the intestine motility by creating long videos to visualize intestine dynamics. In this paper we argue that to analyze huge amount of wireless endoscopy data and define robust methods for contraction detection we should base our approach on sophisticated machine learning techniques. In particular, we propose a cascade of classifiers in order to remove different physiological phenomenon and obtain the motility pattern of small intestines. Our results show obtaining high specificity and sensitivity rates that highlight the high efficiency of the selected approach and support the feasibility of the proposed methodology in the automatic detection and analysis of intestine contractions.
Address Osaka (Japan)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference CARS
Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VSV2006a; IAM @ iam @ VSV2006h Serial 726
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Author Santiago Segui; Michal Drozdzal; Fernando Vilariño; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
Title (up) Categorization and Segmentation of Intestinal Content Frames for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Abbreviated Journal TITB
Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 1341-1352
Keywords
Abstract Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a device that allows the direct visualization of gastrointestinal tract with minimal discomfort for the patient, but at the price of a large amount of time for screening. In order to reduce this time, several works have proposed to automatically remove all the frames showing intestinal content. These methods label frames as {intestinal content – clear} without discriminating between types of content (with different physiological meaning) or the portion of image covered. In addition, since the presence of intestinal content has been identified as an indicator of intestinal motility, its accurate quantification can show a potential clinical relevance. In this paper, we present a method for the robust detection and segmentation of intestinal content in WCE images, together with its further discrimination between turbid liquid and bubbles. Our proposal is based on a twofold system. First, frames presenting intestinal content are detected by a support vector machine classifier using color and textural information. Second, intestinal content frames are segmented into {turbid, bubbles, and clear} regions. We show a detailed validation using a large dataset. Our system outperforms previous methods and, for the first time, discriminates between turbid from bubbles media.
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1089-7771 ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB; MV; OR;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SDV2012 Serial 2124
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
Title (up) Current Challenges on Polyp Detection in Colonoscopy Videos: From Region Segmentation to Region Classification. a Pattern Recognition-based Approach.ased Approach Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Descriptionfor Diagnosis Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 62-71
Keywords Medical Imaging, Colonoscopy, Pattern Recognition, Segmentation, Polyp Detection, Region Description, Machine Learning, Real-time.
Abstract In this paper we present our approach on real-time polyp detection in colonoscopy videos. Our method consists of three stages: Image Segmentation, Region Description and Image Classification. Taking into account the constraints of our project, we introduce our segmentation system that is based on the model of appearance of the polyp that we have defined after observing real videos from colonoscopy processes. The output of this stage will ideally be a low number of regions of which one of them should cover the whole polyp region (if there is one in the image). This regions will be described in terms of features and, as a result of a machine learning schema, classified based on the values that they have for the several features that we will use on their description. Although we are still on the early stages of the project, we present some preliminary segmentation results that indicates that we are going in a good direction.
Address Rome, Italy
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher SciTePress Place of Publication Editor Djemal, Khalifa
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference MIAD
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ BSV2011a Serial 1695
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
Title (up) Depth of Valleys Accumulation Algorithm for Object Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th Congrès Català en Intel·ligencia Artificial Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 71-80
Keywords Object Recognition, Object Region Identification, Image Analysis, Image Processing
Abstract This work aims at detecting in which regions the objects in the image are by using information about the intensity of valleys, which appear to surround ob- jects in images where the source of light is in the line of direction than the camera. We present our depth of valleys accumulation method, which consists of two stages: first, the definition of the depth of valleys image which combines the output of a ridges and valleys detector with the morphological gradient to measure how deep is a point inside a valley and second, an algorithm that denotes points of the image as interior to objects those which are inside complete or incomplete boundaries in the depth of valleys image. To evaluate the performance of our method we have tested it on several application domains. Our results on object region identification are promising, specially in the field of polyp detection in colonoscopy videos, and we also show its applicability in different areas.
Address Lleida
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-1-60750-841-0 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference CCIA
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ BSV2011b Serial 1699
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Juan Malagelada
Title (up) Device, system and method for measurement and analysis of contractile activity Type Patent
Year 2009 Publication US 2009/0202117 A1 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract A method and system for determining intestinal dysfunction condition are provided by classifying and analyzing image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of contractile activity in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including contractile activity, and more particularly to measurement and analysis of contractile activity of the GI tract based on image intensity of in vivo image data.
Address Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VSR2009 Serial 1704
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Author Santiago Segui; Laura Igual; Fernando Vilariño; Petia Radeva; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Jordi Vitria
Title (up) Diagnostic System for Intestinal Motility Disfunctions Using Video Capsule Endoscopy Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Computer Vision Systems. 6th International Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5008 Issue Pages 251–260
Keywords
Abstract Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy is a clinical technique consisting of the analysis of images from the intestine which are pro- vided by an ingestible device with a camera attached to it. In this paper we propose an automatic system to diagnose severe intestinal motility disfunctions using the video endoscopy data. The system is based on the application of computer vision techniques within a machine learn- ing framework in order to obtain the characterization of diverse motil- ity events from video sequences. We present experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system and compare them with the ground-truth provided by the gastroenterologists.
Address Santorini (Greece)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor A. Gasteratos, M. Vincze, and J.K. Tsotsos
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-540-79546-9 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference ICVS
Notes OR; MV; MILAB; SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SIV2008; IAM @ iam @ SIV2008 Serial 962
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