Artificial intelligence and its impact on quality improvement in upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Dig Endosc
; 33(2): 242-253, 2021 Jan.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33145847
ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in medicine has grown large interest. Within gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, the field of colonoscopy and polyp detection is the most investigated, however, upper GI follows the lead. Since endoscopy is performed by humans, it is inherently an imperfect procedure. Computer-aided diagnosis may improve its quality by helping prevent missing lesions and supporting optical diagnosis for those detected. An entire evolution in AI systems has been established in the last decades, resulting in optimization of the diagnostic performance with lower variability and matching or even outperformance of expert endoscopists. This shows a great potential for future quality improvement of endoscopy, given the outstanding diagnostic features of AI. With this narrative review, we highlight the potential benefit of AI to improve overall quality in daily endoscopy and describe the most recent developments for characterization and diagnosis as well as the recent conditions for regulatory approval.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Artificial Intelligence
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Quality Improvement
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Dig Endosc
Journal subject:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
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GASTROENTEROLOGIA
Year:
2021
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Belgium