Automated Polyp Detection in Colon Capsule Endoscopy

Polyp Detection and Segmentation from Video Capsule Endoscopy: A Review

Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is used widely nowadays for visualizing the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Capsule endoscopy exams are prescribed usually as an additional monitoring mechanism and can help in identifying polyps, bleeding, etc. To analyze the large scale video data produced by VCE exams, automatic image processing, computer vision, and learning algorithms are required. Recently, auto...

Capsule endoscopy of the colon.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Technology Committee provides reviews of emerging endoscopic technologies that have the potential to impact the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidence-based methodology is used, by performing a MEDLINE and PubMed literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic. Because many topics have limited peer-reviewed articles, a...

Colon Capsule Endoscopy: Quo Vadis?

Colon Capsule Endoscopy: Review and Perspectives

Colon capsule endoscopy utilizing PillCam COLON 2 capsule allows for visualization potentially of the entire colon and is currently approved for patients who cannot withstand the rigors of traditional optical colonoscopy (OC) and associated sedation as well as those that had an OC that was incomplete for technical reasons other than a poor preparation. We will then describe the prior experience...

Colon capsule endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline.

PillCam colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) is an innovative noninvasive, and painless ingestible capsule technique that allows exploration of the colon without the need for sedation and gas insufflation. Although it is already available in European and other countries, the clinical indications for CCE as well as the reporting and work-up of detected findings have not yet been standardized. The aim o...