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Currently, optical colonoscopy is the preferred tool of choice for the diagnosis of polyps and to avert colorectal cancer. Colon screening is time-consuming and highly operator dependent. In view of this, a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) method needs to be developed for the automatic segmentation of polyps in colonoscopy images. This paper proposes a modified SegNet Visual Geometry Group-19 (VGG-19), a form of convolutional neural network, as a CAD method for polyp segmentation. The modifications include skip connections, 5 \u00d7 5 convolutional filters, and the concatenation of four dilated convolutions applied in parallel form. The CVC-ClinicDB, CVC-ColonDB, and ETIS-LaribPolypDB databases were used to evaluate the model, and it was found that our proposed polyp segmentation model achieved an accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, mean intersection over union, and dice coefficient of 96.06%, 94.55%, 97.56%, 97.48%, 92.3%, and 95.99%, respectively. These results indicate that our model performs as well as or better than previous schemes in the literature. We believe that this study will offer benefits in terms of the future development of CAD tools for polyp segmentation for colorectal cancer diagnosis and management. In the future, we intend to embed our proposed network into a medical capsule robot for practical usage and try it in a hospital setting with clinicians.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21165630","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,22]],"date-time":"2021-08-22T22:59:27Z","timestamp":1629673167000},"page":"5630","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Automatic Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images Using a Modified Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Chin Yii","family":"Eu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5721-6828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tong Boon","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8373-2271","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cheng-Hung","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Yuan Ze University, Jungli 32003, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lok Hua","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5819-0754","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cheng-Kai","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"106114","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cmpb.2021.106114","article-title":"Automatic colonic polyp detection using integration of modified deep residual convolutional neural network and ensemble learning approaches","volume":"206","author":"Liew","year":"2021","journal-title":"Comput. 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