1. GTCreator: a flexible annotation tool for image-based datasets
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Xavier Dray, Maroua Hammami, Aymeric Histace, Gloria Fernández-Esparrach, Jorge Bernal, Cristina Sánchez-Montes, Olivier Romain, Cristina Rodríguez de Miguel, Quentin Angermann, F. Javier Sánchez, Henry Córdova, Ana García-Rodríguez, Marc Masana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Computer Vision Center (Centre de visio per computador) (CVC), Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes (ETIS - UMR 8051), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), ASTRE [Cergy-Pontoise], Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Hospital Clinic (CRESIB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), CHU Saint-Antoine [AP-HP], and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
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Decision support system ,Speedup ,Computer science ,0206 medical engineering ,Biomedical Engineering ,Datasets as Topic ,Health Informatics ,02 engineering and technology ,Health informatics ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Task (project management) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Annotation ,0302 clinical medicine ,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Data Curation ,Flexibility (engineering) ,Information retrieval ,business.industry ,Intestinal Polyps ,Usability ,General Medicine ,Colonoscopy ,020601 biomedical engineering ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Computer Science Applications ,[INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV] ,Benchmark (computing) ,Surgery ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,business ,[SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing ,Software - Abstract
Methodology evaluation for decision support systems for health is a time-consuming task. To assess performance of polyp detection methods in colonoscopy videos, clinicians have to deal with the annotation of thousands of images. Current existing tools could be improved in terms of flexibility and ease of use. We introduce GTCreator, a flexible annotation tool for providing image and text annotations to image-based datasets. It keeps the main basic functionalities of other similar tools while extending other capabilities such as allowing multiple annotators to work simultaneously on the same task or enhanced dataset browsing and easy annotation transfer aiming to speed up annotation processes in large datasets. The comparison with other similar tools shows that GTCreator allows to obtain fast and precise annotation of image datasets, being the only one which offers full annotation editing and browsing capabilites. Our proposed annotation tool has been proven to be efficient for large image dataset annotation, as well as showing potential of use in other stages of method evaluation such as experimental setup or results analysis.
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- 2018
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