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PolypVision AI: Empowering Clinicians with Open-Source Polyp Detection

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Hello everyone!

Today, I am absolutely thrilled to introduce a medical imaging project that I've been pouring my technical expertise into: PolypVision AI. We are preparing to make this entire project open-source, and I will release the complete GitHub repository link very soon! Stay tuned.

The Clinical Challenge

In routine colonoscopies, small or flat polyps are frequently missed, with miss rates reaching up to 20-25%. This manual oversight is often due to the high cognitive load and fatigue experienced by endoscopists. We set out to solve this problem by building an automated, high-precision diagnostic aid that catches what the human eye might overlook.

Our Objective: To develop a from-scratch YOLOv11 implementation explicitly tailored for medical imagery, achieving high-precision automated screening to assist doctors in identifying precancerous lesions in real-time.

Uncompromising Performance

We trained PolypVision AI on a diverse dataset of 9,035 high-resolution images, combining open-source data with high-quality clinical data to prevent overfitting and ensure robust real-world generalization.

93.43%
mAP@0.5 (Clinical Test)
92.99%
Recall (Sensitivity)
~892 FPS
Inference Speed (GPU)
2.3M
Model Parameters

How We Built It: Architectural Excellence

We didn't just use out-of-the-box solutions; we crafted a highly optimized YOLOv11 Nano (YOLOv11n) architecture designed specifically for this task:

  • Advanced Backbone: Utilizes C3k2 Blocks and Spatial Pyramid Pooling - Fast (SPPF) for multi-scale feature extraction.
  • Attention Mechanisms: Incorporated Position-wise Spatial Attention (PSA) in the neck to capture long-range spatial dependencies.
  • Anchor-Free Detection: A 3-scale detect head that directly predicts object centers, eliminating complex anchor box tuning and improving the detection of irregular polyp morphologies.
  • Intelligent Training: Custom composite loss integrating Binary Cross Entropy (BCE), Complete IoU (CIoU), and Distribution Focal Loss (DFL).
  • On-the-Fly Augmentation: Our dynamic pipeline generated over 884,000 unique visual variations during training without any storage overhead!

A Premium Clinical Application

Beyond the model, we developed a production-ready, full-stack web application powered by FastAPI. Designed with a calming, professional "Oasis" theme, the application features:

Real-Time Inference Drag & Drop Uploads Grad-CAM Explainability Downloadable Medical Reports

It's not just a model; it's a complete, deployable clinical tool designed for human-centered interactions.

The GitHub repository link is dropping VERY SOON!
Get ready to explore the code, test the models, and contribute to the future of AI in healthcare.
Check out the Project Presentation:
📄 View Presentation (Google Drive)

Thank you for your support, and I can't wait to share the codebase with all of you!

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