Optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps using convolutional neural networks

Autor: Andreas V. Hadjinicolaou, Danail Stoyanov, Fanourios Georgiades, Laurence Lovat, Rawen Kader
Přispěvatelé: Georgiades, Fanourios [0000-0003-0440-2720], Lovat, Laurence B [0000-0003-4542-3915], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: World Journal of Gastroenterology
ISSN: 1007-9327
Popis: Colonoscopy remains the gold standard investigation for colorectal cancer screening as it offers the opportunity to both detect and resect pre-malignant and neoplastic polyps. Although technologies for image-enhanced endoscopy are widely available, optical diagnosis has not been incorporated into routine clinical practice, mainly due to significant inter-operator variability. In recent years, there has been a growing number of studies demonstrating the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNN) to enhance optical diagnosis of polyps. Data suggest that the use of CNNs might mitigate the inter-operator variability amongst endoscopists, potentially enabling a "resect and discard" or "leave in" strategy to be adopted in real-time. This would have significant financial benefits for healthcare systems, avoid unnecessary polypectomies of non-neoplastic polyps and improve the efficiency of colonoscopy. Here, we review advances in CNN for the optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps, current limitations and future directions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE