Unsupervised monocular depth estimation for colonoscope system using feedback network

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Abstract

A colonoscopy is a medical examination used to check disease or abnormalities in the large intestine. If necessary, polyps or adenomas would be removed through the scope during a colonoscopy. Colorectal cancer can be prevented through this. However, the polyp detection rate differs depending on the condition and skill level of the endoscopist. Even some endoscopists have a 90% chance of missing an adenoma. Artificial intelligence and robot technologies for colonoscopy are being studied to compensate for these problems. In this study, we propose a self-supervised monocular depth estimation using spatiotemporal consistency in the colon environment. It is our contribution to propose a loss function for reconstruction errors between adjacent predicted depths and a depth feedback network that uses predicted depth information of the previous frame to pre-dict the depth of the next frame. We performed quantitative and qualitative evaluation of our ap-proach, and the proposed FBNet (depth FeedBack Network) outperformed state-of-the-art results for unsupervised depth estimation on the UCL datasets.

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Hwang, S. J., Park, S. J., Kim, G. M., & Baek, J. H. (2021). Unsupervised monocular depth estimation for colonoscope system using feedback network. Sensors, 21(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082691

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