Integrated system for automatic detection of representative video frames in wireless capsule endoscopy using adaptive sliding window singular value decomposition.

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a non‐invasive diagnosis method that allows recording a video as the capsule travels through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The practical drawback is producing a long clinical video in which the review process by an experienced specialist is tedious. Automated summarisation methods can reduce the evaluation time by experts as well as errors in manual interpretation. The proposed approach consists of three main steps as follows: First, an adaptive sliding window singular value decomposition is employed to extract representative video frames. Then, adaptive contrast diffusion is utilised to increase the visibility of WCE frames. At the end stage, a novel knowledge‐based method is developed to segment video frames into four topographic zones of GI tract, which are oesophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine. The authors have evaluated the proposed framework in the presence of 30 local datasets as well as publicly available KID database. The average recall and precision were estimated by 0.86 and 0.83, and by 0.82 and 0.83 for KID database, respectively. Their results reveal that significant reduction in the review time is feasible using the proposed technique. Quantitative results of summarisation show that the proposed method is more effective than three methods in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]