Improvement of Blood Detection Accuracy using Image Processing Techniques suitable for Capsule Endoscopy

Bleeding in the digestive duct is an important diagnostic parameter for patients. Blood in the endoscopic image can be determined by investigating the color tone of blood due to the degree of oxygenation, under- or over- illumination, food debris and secretions, etc. However, we found that how to pre-process raw images obtained from the capsule detectors was very important. We applied various image process methods suitable for the capsule endoscopic image in order to remove noises and unbalanced sensitivities for the image pixels. The results showed that much improvement was achieved by additional pre-processing techniques on the algorithm of determining bleeding areas.

• Yong-Gyu Lee
• Gilwon Yoon

• blood detection
• capsule endoscopy
• image processing.

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