Understanding Model Behavior in Monocular Polyp Sizing

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Hauptverfasser: Xiong, Xinqi, Beltran, Andrea Dunn, Choi, Junmyeong, McGill, Sarah K., Niethammer, Marc, Sengupta, Roni
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author Xiong, Xinqi
Beltran, Andrea Dunn
Choi, Junmyeong
McGill, Sarah K.
Niethammer, Marc
Sengupta, Roni
author_facet Xiong, Xinqi
Beltran, Andrea Dunn
Choi, Junmyeong
McGill, Sarah K.
Niethammer, Marc
Sengupta, Roni
contents Accurate polyp size stratification guides surveillance decisions, with lesions larger than 5 mm typically requiring closer follow-up. However, monocular colonoscopy lacks a reliable metric reference. We present a diagnostic audit of binary polyp size classification (<=5 mm vs. >5 mm) across multiple public multi-center datasets, model families, and patient-stratified cross-validation. Across architectures and input modalities, including RGB appearance, relative depth, and photometry, model performance is moderately consistent, suggesting reliance on cues correlated with examination behavior rather than true metric scales. By providing ground-truth scale at varying granularities, we quantify the potential improvement from perfect scale information and show that current depth estimation and global calibration offer limited gains. We further demonstrate that segmentation errors under distribution shift eliminate most of this potential, with oracle scale under predicted masks recovering only baseline performance. These results highlight metric scale and mask robustness as two independent bottlenecks and provide reusable evaluation tools such as oracle scale ladders, shortcut partitions, and mask substitution for auditing future polyp sizing pipelines. Our code is publicly accessible at https://github.com/anaxqx/polyp-sizing-audit.
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spellingShingle Understanding Model Behavior in Monocular Polyp Sizing
Xiong, Xinqi
Beltran, Andrea Dunn
Choi, Junmyeong
McGill, Sarah K.
Niethammer, Marc
Sengupta, Roni
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurate polyp size stratification guides surveillance decisions, with lesions larger than 5 mm typically requiring closer follow-up. However, monocular colonoscopy lacks a reliable metric reference. We present a diagnostic audit of binary polyp size classification (<=5 mm vs. >5 mm) across multiple public multi-center datasets, model families, and patient-stratified cross-validation. Across architectures and input modalities, including RGB appearance, relative depth, and photometry, model performance is moderately consistent, suggesting reliance on cues correlated with examination behavior rather than true metric scales. By providing ground-truth scale at varying granularities, we quantify the potential improvement from perfect scale information and show that current depth estimation and global calibration offer limited gains. We further demonstrate that segmentation errors under distribution shift eliminate most of this potential, with oracle scale under predicted masks recovering only baseline performance. These results highlight metric scale and mask robustness as two independent bottlenecks and provide reusable evaluation tools such as oracle scale ladders, shortcut partitions, and mask substitution for auditing future polyp sizing pipelines. Our code is publicly accessible at https://github.com/anaxqx/polyp-sizing-audit.
title Understanding Model Behavior in Monocular Polyp Sizing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20461