Browsing by Author "Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur"

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Automatic Blurry Colon Image Detection Using Laplacian Operator-Based Features
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Yilmaz, Bulent; Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Dundar, Mehmet Sait; 01. Abdullah Gül University
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A Comprehensive Study on Automatic Non-Informative Frame Detection in Colonoscopy Videos
(Wiley, 2024) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Dogan, Refika Sultan; Yilmaz, Buelent; 01. Abdullah Gül University; 04. Yaşam ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi; 04.01. Biyomühendislik
Despite today's developing healthcare technology, conventional colonoscopy is still a gold-standard method to detect colon abnormalities. Due to the folded structure of the intestine and visual disturbances caused by artifacts, it can be hard for specialists to detect abnormalities during the procedure. Frames that include artifacts such as specular reflection, improper contrast levels from insufficient or excessive illumination gastric juice, bubbles, or residuals should be detected to increase an accurate diagnosis rate. In this work, both conventional machine learning and transfer learning methods have been used to detect non-informative frames in colonoscopy videos. The conventional machine learning part consists of 5 different types of texture features, which are gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), gray level run length matrix (GLRLM), neighborhood gray-tone difference matrix (NGTDM), focus measure operators (FMOs), and first-order statistics. In addition to these methods, we utilized 8 different transfer learning models: AlexNet, SqueezeNet, GoogleNet, ShuffleNet, ResNet50, ResNet18, NasNetMobile, and MobileNet. The results showed that FMOs and decision tree combination gave the best accuracy and f-measure values with almost 89% and 0.79%, respectively, for the conventional machine learning part. When the transfer learning part is taken into account, AlexNet (99.85%) and SqueezeNet (98.80%) have the highest performance metric results. This study shows the potential of both transfer learning and conventional machine learning algorithms to provide fast and accurate non-informative frame detection to be used during a colonoscopy, which may be considered the initial step in identifying and classifying colon-related diseases automatically to help guide physicians.
Detection of Variation Instances on Colonoscopy Videos using Structural Similarity Index
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2018) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü; 01. Abdullah Gül University
The aim of this study is to reduce the number of images extracted from the videos recorded by the specialists during the colonoscopy process for further examination, thereby enabling the specialist to deal with fewer images. Since the images obtained from the videos are very similar, the main assumption of this study is that the whole video can be represented by fewer images. The approach used in this study is the structural similarity index. Totally, images were obtained from 4 different videos coming from healthy, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's, and polyp patients. The noisy images in these videos were eliminated manually. When the structural similarity index between two consecutive clear images was less than 0.83, the second image was selected and shown to the specialist for his/her examination. By this way, the frames carrying significantly new information from the videos were defined as the variation instances. The tests on healthy or diseased colon videos showed that only 5-10% of the clear images provide significantly new information.
Effect of Bilinear Interpolation on the Texture Analysis of Colonoscopy Images
(IEEE345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2017) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Interpolation is a method that is used to obtain unknown intensities with the help of known intensities on an image. This method is frequently used in the literature to eliminate light reflection on colonoscopy images. Texture features are the most important characteristics used to describe the region or objects of interest in the image. They are the measures of intensity variation of a surface that determine properties such as smoothness, roughness, and regularity. The aim of this study is to find out the how bilinear interpolation applied on colonoscopy images with reflection impact texture features obtained from the same images. A research carried out to make reasonable comparison between a texture feature from an image with no reflection and the same feature obtained from the same image with synthetically added reflections with various percentages. Using the approaches like gray level co-occurence matrix (GLCM), gray level run length matrix (GLRLM), neighborhood gray tone difference matrix (NGTDM) 126 features were extracted from each 32x32 sub-images coming from 610 colonoscopy images. Several of the features extracted from sub-images with no reflection and reflection were not statistically significantly different, while majority of them were affected from the reflections.
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Effect of Interpolation on Specular Reflections in Texture-Based Automatic Colonic Polyp Detection
(Wiley, 2021) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; Aydin, Zafer; 01. Abdullah Gül University; 02. 04. Bilgisayar Mühendisliği; 02. Mühendislik Fakültesi
Reflections of LED light cause unwanted noise effects called specular reflection (SR) on colonoscopic images. The aim of this study was to seek answers to the following two questions. (a) How are the texture features used in automatic detection of polyps affected by the interpolation on specular reflections? (b) If they are affected does it really affect the classification performance? In order to answer these questions, we used 610 colonoscopy images, and divided each image into tiles whose sizes were 32-by-32 pixels. From these tiles, we selected the ones without any specular reflection. We added different shape and size specular reflections cropped from real images onto the reflection-free tiles. We then used the nearest neighbors, bilinear and bicubic interpolation techniques on the tiles on which SRs were added. On these tiles we extracted 116 texture features using 3 second-order approaches, and 4 first-order statistics. First, we used paired samplettest. Second, we performed automatic classification of polyps and background using random forest and k nearest neighbors (k-NN) approaches using the texture features for different combinations of specular reflections added on the tiles from the polyp or background. The results showed that depending on the size of specular reflection, interpolation can cause a significant difference between the texture features that were coming from reflection-free tiles and the same tiles on which interpolation was performed. In addition, we note that bicubic interpolation may be preferred to eliminate specular reflection when texture features are used for background and polyp discrimination.
Kolonoskopi Görüntülerinde Bilineer İnterpolasyonun Tekstör Analizine Etkisi
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Interpolation is a method that is used to obtain unknown intensities with the help of known intensities on an image. This method is frequently used in the literature to eliminate light reflection on colonoscopy images. Texture features are the most important characteristics used to describe the region or objects of interest in the image. They are the measures of intensity variation of a surface that determine properties such as smoothness, roughness, and regularity. The aim of this study is to find out the how bilinear interpolation applied on colonoscopy images with reflection impact texture features obtained from the same images. A research carried out to make reasonable comparison between a texture feature from an image with no reflection and the same feature obtained from the same image with synthetically added reflections with various percentages. Using the approaches like gray level co-occurence matrix (GLCM), gray level run length matrix (GLRLM), neighborhood gray tone difference matrix (NGTDM) 126 features were extracted from each 32×32 sub-images coming from 610 colonoscopy images. Several of the features extracted from sub-images with no reflection and reflection were not statistically significantly different, while majority of them were affected from the reflections. © 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Kolonoskopi Görüntülerinden Otomatik Ülseratif Kolit Teşhisi
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a disease in which inner surface of colon is inflamed. Ulcers and open scars on the colon are observed. The complaint in the flare period is the frequent bloody diarrhea. Complaints of people with UC increase and decrease periodically. Colonoscopy is the most preferred approach for the visualization of the gastrointestinal tract for the diagnosis and follow-up of related diseases, and UC in particular. The lack of experience of the colonoscopist, complicated locality of the lesion, and the rush in the colonoscopy suite to complete the procedure as soon as possible may cause mistakes in visual analysis. In this study, 200 colonoscopy images (100 normal, 100 UC) were used. The statistical features such as gray level variance, gray level local variance, normalized variance, histogram range, and entropy were extracted from the images, and a normalized 200x5 feature matrix was formed. The normal images and images with UC were discriminated using support vector machines and k-nearest neighbors. It should be noted that the extraction of only 5 features from the colonoscopy images resulted in 95% accuracy. This study demonstrated the feasibility of the development of software tools for aiding the physicians in the diagnosis of colon diseases. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Motion Artifact Detection in Colonoscopy Images
(Sciendo, 2018) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; Dundar, Mehmet Sait; Dogan, Serkan; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Computer-aided detection is an integral part of medical image evaluation process because examination of each image takes a long time and generally experts' do not have enough time for the elimination of images with motion artifact (blurred images). Computer-aided detection is required for both increasing accuracy rate and saving experts' time. Large intestine does not have straight structure thus camera of the colonoscopy should be moved continuously to examine inside of the large intestine and this movement causes motion artifact on colonoscopy images. In this study, images were selected from open-source colonoscopy videos and obtained at Kayseri Training and Research Hospital. Totally 100 images were analyzed half of which were clear. Firstly, a modified version of histogram equalization was applied in the pre-processing step to all images in our dataset, and then, used Laplacian, wavelet transform (WT), and discrete cosine transform-based (DCT) approaches to extract features for the discrimination of images with no artifact (clear) and images with motion artifact. The Laplacian-based feature extraction method was used for the first time in the literature on colonoscopy images. The comparison between Laplacian-based features and previously used methods such as WT and DCT has been performed. In the classification phase of our study, support vector machines (SVM), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and k nearest neighbors (k-NN) were used as the classifiers. The results showed that Laplacian-based features were more successful in the detection of images with motion artifact when compared to popular methods used in the literature. As a result, a combination of features extracted using already existing approaches (WT and DCT) and the Laplacian-based methods reached 85% accuracy levels with SVM classification approach.
Citation - Scopus: 1
Yapısal Benzerlik İndeksini Kullanarak Kolonoskopi Videolarında Değişim Anlarının Belirlenmesi
(IEEE, 2018) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; 01. Abdullah Gül University
The aim of this study is to reduce the number of images extracted from the videos recorded by the specialists during the colonoscopy process for further examination, thereby enabling the specialist to deal with fewer images. Since the images obtained from the videos are very similar, the main assumption of this study is that the whole video can be represented by fewer images. The approach used in this study is the structural similarity index. Totally, images were obtained from 4 different videos coming from healthy, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's, and polyp patients. The noisy images in these videos were eliminated manually. When the structural similarity index between two consecutive clear images was less than 0.83, the second image was selected and shown to the specialist for his/her examination. By this way, the frames carrying significantly new information from the videos were defined as the variation instances. The tests on healthy or diseased colon videos showed that only 5-10% of the clear images provide significantly new information.