BACKGROUND Small-bowel capsule endoscopy is a tool used to visualize the small bowel to identify the location of bleeds in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB). Capsule endoscopy is currently funded in Ontario in cases where there has been a failure to identify a source of bleeding via conventional diagnostic procedures. In Ontario, capsule endoscopy is a diagnostic option for patients whos...

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a modern modality, which is used to view the entire gastrointestinal tract. But the quality of the images plays an important role in the diagnostic procedure. In this paper, we compared various filtering technique for WCE images and we analyzed the statistical values like Mean, Standard Deviation, Skewness and Kurtosis using Aphelion Dev software.

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a feasible noninvasive way to detect the whole gastrointestinal (GI) tract and revolutionizes the diagnosis technology. However, compared with wired endoscopies, the limited working time, the low frame rate, and the low image resolution limit the wider application. The progress of this new technology is reviewed in this paper, and the evolution tendencies...