GastroNet: Abnormalities Recognition in Gastrointestinal Tract through Endoscopic Imagery using Deep Learning Techniques

The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract may be infected by various diseases. If not detected at early stages, these abnormalities have the possibility to progress into gastric cancer, which is a common type of malignancies with yearly global cases exceeding one million. Endoscopy is a routinely used strategy for the examination of gastrointestinal tract diseases. During the examination, and due to many reasons like irregular morphologies, a huge number of frames, and exhaustion, gastrologists can miss some abnormalities. Thus, the automated classification of anomalies in endoscopic images is becoming necessary to assist medical diagnosis and reduce the cost and time of the medical process. Recent advances and high performance of deep learning techniques make it the best choice to adopt as a computer-aided-diagnosis strategy. In this paper, a novel deep learning model based deep convolutional neural network is proposed. Our model aims to automatically detect diseases from endoscopic images. The newly designed architecture is validated on the publicly available dataset KVASIR, which contains 8000 images. The results of our CNN approach compared to other well known pre-trained models showed important improvement and achieved 96.89% in terms of accuracy. The experiments demonstrated that the system can perform a high detection level without any human intervention.