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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-3120</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-3120</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.22105/ahse.v3i2.61</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Small datasets, Medical image classification, Unsupervised learning, Hierarchical autoencoders, Deep belief networks, Hybrid approach, Hierarchical clustering</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Deep Unsupervised Learning for Colonoscopy Lesion Representation and Clustering</article-title><subtitle>Deep Unsupervised Learning for Colonoscopy Lesion Representation and Clustering</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Bayrami Rad</surname>
		<given-names>Vahid</given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Mazinani</surname>
		<given-names>Mahdi</given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ShQ.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e Qods, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Mirzarezaee</surname>
		<given-names>Mitra</given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib></contrib-group>		
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>04</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2026 REA Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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      <related-article related-article-type="companion" vol="2" page="e235" id="RA1" ext-link-type="pmc">
			<article-title>Deep Unsupervised Learning for Colonoscopy Lesion Representation and Clustering</article-title>
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			Detecting lesions in colonoscopy remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of images and the limitations of labeled datasets. This study proposes a combined unsupervised learning approach for clustering colonoscopy images, which utilizes the Bag of Words (BoW) model for extracting local features, hierarchical autoencoders for dimensionality reduction, hierarchical clustering for effective data grouping, and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for identifying nonlinear patterns. This method significantly enhances lesion detection, especially when labeled data is scarce. Experimental results show clustering accuracy ranging from 91.97% to 100%, with a strong silhouette score above 0.80.  Performance improves with larger vocabulary sizes and distance metrics such as Euclidean, Chebyshev, and Cosine. Integration of hierarchical autoencoders and DBNs enhances scalability and computational efficiency under limited labeled data conditions. The proposed method improves clustering quality without requiring large labeled datasets. This unsupervised hybrid framework is applied for colon disease detection using unlabeled data and integrates techniques from pattern recognition, deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, reducing reliance on labeled data while improving diagnostic accuracy.
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