Endoscope image analysis method for evaluating the extent of early gastric cancer

In this study, a system is proposed to help physicians perform processing on images taken with a magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging. In our proposed system, the transition from lesion to normal zone is quantitatively analyzed and presented by texture analysis. Eleven feature values are calculated, i.e., six from a co-occurrence matrix and five from a run length matrix with a scanning window. Integrating these feature values formulates an effective and representative feature value, which is used to draw a color map, so the transition from lesion to normal zone can be visibly illustrated. In this paper, the proposed method is applied to images, and the efficacy is considered. This method is also applied to some rotated images to examine whether it could work effectively on such images.

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