Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 29, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is of keen interest for global health development as potential support for current human shortcomings. Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is an excellent substrate for AI, since it holds the genuine potential to improve qual...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 18, 2020
Endocytoscopy provides an in-vivo visualization of nuclei and micro-vessels at the cellular level in real-time, facilitating so-called "optical biopsy" or "virtual histology" of colorectal polyps/neoplasms. This functionality is enabled by 520-fold m...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 5, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) for luminal gastrointestinal endoscopy is rapidly evolving. To date, most applications have focused on colon polyp detection and characterization. However, the potential of AI to revolutionize our current practice in endo...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 4, 2020
Since colonoscopy and polypectomy were introduced, Colorectal Cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality decreased significantly. Although we have entered the era of quality measurement and improvement, literature shows that a considerable amount of colore...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 4, 2020
The number of publications in endoscopic journals that present deep learning applications has risen tremendously over the past years. Deep learning has shown great promise for automated detection, diagnosis and quality improvement in endoscopy. Howev...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Nov 10, 2020
Gastric cancer is a common cause of death worldwide and its early detection is crucial to improve its prognosis. Its incidence varies throughout countries, and screening has been found to be cost-effective at least in high-incidence regions. Identifi...
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Nov 29, 2018
Worldwide, the standard treatment for locally advanced esophageal cancer with curative intent is perioperative chemotherapy or preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by open transthoracic esophagectomy (OTE) with gastric conduit reconstruction. Mini...