Endoscopy is a routine imaging technique used for both diagnosis and minimally invasive surgical treatment. Artifacts such as motion blur, bubbles, specular reflections, floating objects and pixel saturation impede the visual interpretation and the a...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To automatically identify and locate various types and states of the ureteral orifice (UO) in real endoscopy scenarios, we developed and verified a real-time computer-aided UO detection and tracking system using an improved ...
With the advent of electronic medical records and digitalization of health care over the past 2 decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an enabling tool to manage complex datasets and deliver streamlined data-driven patient care. AI algo...
Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Nov 3, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been attracting considerable attention as an important scientific topic in the field of medicine. Deep-leaning (DL) technologies have been applied more dominantly than other traditional machine-learning methods. They ...
Surgical laparoscopy, endoscopy & percutaneous techniques
Oct 28, 2020
BACKGROUND: Endoscopy is the optimal choice of diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. Following the advancements made in medical technology, different kinds of novel endoscopy-methods have emerged. Although the significant progress in the penet...
Fifth Generation (5G) mobile communications technology became available in Japan as of the end of March 2020. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is proceeding with a plan to use 5G for a doctor-to-doctor remote diagnosis system...
In vivo diseases such as colorectal cancer and gastric cancer are increasingly occurring in humans. These are two of the most common types of cancer that cause death worldwide. Therefore, the early detection and treatment of these types of cancer are...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Oct 2, 2020
BACKGROUND: Some difficulties are common when using endoscopes. Steering is not intuitive, the endoscope weight is a physical burden to physicians and communication problems often occur between operators.
BACKGROUND: The Endonasal Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery (EETS) is a minimally invasive procedure to approach and remove pituitary tumors and other sellar lesions. The process causes less pain, faster recovery, and provides further minimal invasi...