Removal of non-informative frames for wireless capsule endoscopy video segmentation

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) video segmentation plays an important part in WCE automatic diagnosis since it provides an effective method to help physicians and save time. In the automatic WCE video segmentation process, impurities frames with opaque digestive juice, food residues and excrement not only waste plentiful time, but also cause a lower accuracy of segmentation for its variation of color and pattern. The major impurities which have great affection for WCE video segmentation can be divided into two categories, gastric juice and bubbles. Thus, in this paper, a novel two-stage preprocessing approach is proposed to remove impurities frames in WCE videos. In the first stage, frames of gastric juice are eliminated by using local HS histogram features. In the second stage, a new approach is carried out to remove the bubbles frames in the WCE video, which combines Color Local Binary Patterns (CLBP) algorithm with Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classifier is used in both stages for its rapidity. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme is an effective approach for removing non-informative frames in WCE video and the accuracies of each stage can reach as high as 99.31% and 97.54% respectively.