BMC medical informatics and decision making
Feb 7, 2023
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Several screening tests, such as colonoscopy, can be used to find polyps or colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy reports are often written in unstructured narrative text. The information em...
Colonoscopy is a valuable tool for preventing and reducing the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer. Although several computer-aided colorectal polyp detection and diagnosis systems have been proposed for clinical application, many remain sus...
Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Jan 18, 2023
OBJECTIVES: Convolutional neural networks (CNN) for computer-aided diagnosis of polyps are often trained using high-quality still images in a single chromoendoscopy imaging modality with sessile serrated lesions (SSLs) often excluded. This study deve...
Clinics and research in hepatology and gastroenterology
Dec 7, 2022
The current "Gold Standard" colorectal cancer (CRC) screening approach of faecal occult blood test (FOBT) with follow-up colonoscopy has been shown to significantly improve morbidity and mortality, by enabling the early detection of disease. However,...
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology
Dec 2, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Assessment of the anatomical colorectal segment of polyps during colonoscopy is important for treatment and follow-up strategies, but is largely operator dependent. This feasibility study aimed to assess whether, using images of a magnetic...
BACKGROUND: Mucin depletion is one of the histological indicators of clinical relapse among patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Mucin depletion is evaluated semiquantitatively by pathologists using histological images. Therefore, the interobserver...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Publicly available databases containing colonoscopic imaging data are valuable resources for artificial intelligence (AI) research. Currently, little is known regarding the available number and content of these databases. This re...
Tortuosity of the colon is an important parameter for predicting the course of colonoscopy. Computed tomography scans of the abdominal cavity were performed in 224 (94 female, 130 male) adult subjects. The number of acute (angle not exceeding 90°) be...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) belongs to the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) family, which is mainly caused by inflammation of the tissue in the colon and rectum. The severity of this infection can radically affect the patient's overall well-being. Althou...
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