A team including Senior Associate Professor Xin ZHU (※1), a member of CAIST ARC-BME, and Mr. Zhe GUO, a 1st-year UoA doctoral student, won the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference iCAST 2017 (※2) in Taichung City, Taiwan.
Title: Automatic Polyp Recognition from Colonoscopy Images Based on Bag of Visual Words
Author: Zhe Guo, Yu Wang, Yanghua Shen, Xin Zhu, Daiki Nemoto, Daisuke Takayanagi, Masato Aizawa, Noriyuki Isohata, Kenichi Utano, Kensuke Kumamoto, Shungo Endo, Kazutomo Togashi
The award was given for research on a technique for automatic polyp recognition from colonoscopy images developed as part of a collaborative research project with the Aizu Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University.