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To validate this approach, we apply it to gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopic image classification using the publicly available Kvasir dataset, which contains eight GI image classes with 1000 images each. The proposed 2D EMD-based design procedure decomposes images into a full set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) to enhance image features beneficial for AI model development. Integrating 2D EMD into a deep learning pipeline, we evaluate its impact on four popular models (ResNet152, VGG19bn, MobileNetV3L, and SwinTransformerV2S). The results demonstrate that subtracting IMFs from the original image consistently improves accuracy, F1-score, and AUC for all models. The study reveals a notable enhancement in model performance, with an approximately 9% increase in accuracy compared to counterparts without EMD integration for ResNet152. Similarly, there is an increase of around 18% for VGG19L, 3% for MobileNetV3L, and 8% for SwinTransformerV2. 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