Enhanced Anomaly Detection for Capsule Endoscopy Using Ensemble Learning Strategies

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Abstract

Capsule endoscopy is a method to capture images of the gastrointestinal tract and screen for diseases which might remain hidden if investigated with standard endoscopes. Due to the limited size of a video capsule, embedding AI models directly into the capsule demands careful consideration of the model size and thus complicates anomaly detection in this field. Furthermore, the scarcity of available data in this domain poses an ongoing challenge to achieving effective anomaly detection.Thus, this work introduces an ensemble strategy to address this challenge in anomaly detection tasks in video capsule endoscopies, requiring only a small number of individual neural networks during both the training and inference phases. Ensemble learning combines the predictions of multiple independently trained neural networks. This has shown to be highly effective in enhancing both the accuracy and robustness of machine learning models. However, this comes at the cost of higher memory usage and increased computational effort, which quickly becomes prohibitive in many real-world applications. Instead of applying the same training algorithm to each individual network, we propose using various loss functions, drawn from the anomaly detection field, to train each network. The methods are validated on the two largest publicly available datasets for video capsule endoscopy images, the Galar and the Kvasir-Capsule dataset. We achieve an AUC score of 76.86% on the Kvasir-Capsule and an AUC score of 76.98% on the Galar dataset. Our approach outperforms current baselines with significantly fewer parameters across all models, which is a crucial step towards incorporating artificial intelligence into capsule endoscopies.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Seiten1-7
Seitenumfang7
ISBN (elektronisch)979-8-3315-8618-8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Juli 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
ISSN1557-170X

Externe IDs

PubMed 41336110
ORCID /0000-0002-3474-3115/work/203071836
ORCID /0000-0002-2421-6127/work/203071860

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