Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
Dec 29, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) research in endoscopy is being translated at rapid pace with a number of approved devices now available for use in luminal endoscopy. However, the published literature for AI in biliopancreatic endoscopy is predominantly ...
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...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Nov 30, 2020
This article designs and analyzes a recurrent neural network (RNN) for the visual servoing of a flexible surgical endoscope. The flexible surgical endoscope is based on a commercially available UR5 robot with a flexible endoscope attached as an end-e...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Nov 17, 2020
BACKGROUND: Studies have been conducted on slave-specific master devices with a similar kinematic structure to the slave to enhance intuitiveness. However, for the four-degrees of freedom (DOFs) slave of a flexible endoscopic surgery robot, only four...
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...
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