The disorders related to the digestive system are called Gastrointestinal disorders. These disorders cause economic and social impact on our society. The most common intestinal disorders are irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), GERD, Ulcer, Polyps, Colon cancer, Gastroenteritis, Diverticular disease, Celiac disease (CD), Inflammatory bowel disease, Gastric cancer, hemorrhoids, Crohn’s disease and pancreatitis. Among these most commonly affected is IBS,the predominance of it within the common population universally is 4.1%. IBS is 1.6 times more frequent in females than in males[1]. Amongst the developing regions of the world, India has the most noteworthy prevalence frequency of 9.31 for IBD and 5.41 for ulcerative colitis per 100000 persons. CD which has a prevalence rate of 1% in various countries is predominantly observed in male sex in childhood but gets to be predominant in women in adulthood, while the rate of UC is reported to be equal between the genders from childhood to adulthood [2].
Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease which causes inflammation on the digestive tract. The disorder begins in the rectum and for the most part extends proximally in a nonstop way through the complete colon. Around 5·7–15·5% of patients with ulcerative colitis have a first-degree relative with the same disease. Ulcerative colitis is more predominant than Crohn’s disease. Patients with longstanding and/or extensive UC have an expanded chance of colorectal cancer (CRC) [4]. Gastric polyp is an unusual development of tissue projecting from the gastric mucosal layer. In general, the rate of polyps shows up to have expanded, as indicated by a higher prevalence in huge series [5]. Evacuating the polyps essentially diminishes the frequency and mortality of Colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy is the favored screening tool because it permits direct examination of the colorectal mucosa and evacuation of polyps with malignant potential [6]. Esophagitis refers to inflammation or injury to the esophageal mucosa. The common cause is gastroesophageal reflux, which can lead to erosive esophagitis. The symptoms are vomiting, regurgitation, nausea, epigastric abdominal pain or chest pain, dysphagia, water brash, globus, or decreased appetite. As numerous as one third of patients with esophagitis may have an ordinary showing up esophagus. Other findings incorporate esophageal wrinkles, strictures, mucosal rings (trachealization), and white Medication-induced esophagitis has an estimated incidence of 3.9 per 100,000 population per year with a mean age at diagnosis of 41.5 years [7].
The traditional imaging and endoscopic procedures have aided clinicians to examine and diagnose the human gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Using these radiological procedures we can examine polyps, inflammation and punctures in the GI tract. The basic radiology methods like barium swallow and X-ray fluoroscopy are used to visualize and examine the upper gastrointestinal tract [8]. Invasive and non-surgical procedures like Upper endoscopy, Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy and ultra-high magnification Endocytoscopy are used to identify bleeding, density, severity of ulcer, biopsy collection and tumor identification [9]. One problem associated with these methods is that they can cause duodenal hematoma, infection, abdominal pain, or tear in the colon wall during the process of diagnosis. Balloon enteroscopy allow examining the colon polyps or areas of bleeding in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Some of the complications associated with this method are sedation, perforation and potent risk of ileus (transient slowing of the bowel) [10]. The disadvantage of conventional endoscopy such as Colonoscopy or Esophagogastroduodenoscopy is the inability to image and examine the small intestine. This could be overcome by using capsule endoscopy in which a capsule is ingested by the patient and the capsule images throughout the entire GI tract. Capsule endoscopy includes limited preparation and no anesthesia, painless procedure and is the best imaging diagnostic modality for gastrointestinal abnormalities [11].
1.1 Related Work
Wang, S., et al proposed a systematic evaluation and optimization of automatic detection of ulcers in wireless capsule endoscopy on a large dataset collected from more than 30 hospitals and 100 medical examination centers using deep convolutional neural networks. A method called second glance (secG) detection framework for automatic detection of ulcers was used [12]. Barash, Y., et al proposed a method to grade the severity of ulcer in video-capsule images of Crohn’s disease patients using an ordinal neural network solution. Deep learning algorithm was used to automate the grading. The dataset used was provided by PIllCamCrohn’s Capsule (PCC), Medtronic [13]. Saito, H., et al developed and tested a convolutional neural network to automatically detect protruding lesions of various types in WCE (Wireless Capsule Endoscopy) images. The data were collected using Pillcam SB2 and were analyzed using STATA. He constructed an AI system using SSD and all layers of the CNN were fine-tuned using stochastic gradient descent [14].
Ghosh, T., et al developed a computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) tool for automated analysis of small intestinal abnormalities like bleeding. A VGG16 network was used for the convolutional layers and a softmax classifier was fed by the decoder output feature maps for pixel-wise classification [15]. Yuan, Y., et al proposed a two-stage fully automated computer-aided detection system to detect ulcer from WCE images by saliency max-pooling method along with Locality-constrained Linear Coding (LLC) Method. In this method,170 ulcer images and 170 normal images were collected and the classification was done using Support Vector Machine (SVM) [16].