Review on the Applications of Deep Learning in the Analysis of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Images

Abstract

Gastrointestinal (GI) disease is one of the most common diseases and primarily examined by GI endoscopy. Recently, deep learning (DL), in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made achievements in GI endoscopy image analysis. This review focuses on the applications of DL methods in the analysis of GI images. We summarized and compared the latest published literature related to the common clinical GI diseases and covers the key applications of DL in GI image detection, classification, segmentation, recognition, location, and other tasks. At the end, we give a discussion on the challenges and the research directions of GI image analysis based on DL in the future.