Minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR) based feature selection from endoscopic images for automatic gastrointestinal polyp detection

In this paper, a computer based system has been proposed as a support to gastrointestinal polyp detection. It can detect and classify gastrointestinal polyps from endoscopic video. Color wavelet (CW) features and convolutional neural network (CNN) features of endoscopic video frames are extracted. Mutual information based feature selection technique-Minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR) is used to scale down feature vector. Instead of using a single classifier, Bootstrap Aggregrating (Bagging)- an ensemble classifier is used. Proposed system has been assessed against different public databases and our own datasets. Evaluation shows that, the system outperforms the existing methods.