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Filter by:Currently, the Correa cascade is a widely accepted model of gastric carcinogenesis. Intestinal metaplasia is a high risk factor for gastric cancer. According to Sydney criteria, mild intestinal metaplasia was not associated with gastric cancer, while moderate to severe intestinal metaplasia was strongly associated with the development of gastric cancer. Because intestinal metaplasia is distributed in various forms, the use of white light endoscopy lacks specificity, and the consistency with histopathological diagnosis is poor; Pathological biopsy is still needed to make a diagnosis. At present, national guidelines suggest that OLGIM score should be used to evaluate the risk of gastric cancer, and patients with OLGIM grade III/IV should be monitored by close gastroscopy. However, it requires at least four biopsies, which is clinically infeasible. Confocal laser endomicroscopy allows real-time observation of living tissue, comparable to pathological findings.
Current national guidelines recommend the use of OLGIM score to evaluate the risk of gastric cancer in patients, and close gastroscopic monitoring should be performed after OLGIM grade III/IV. However, it would not be clinically feasible to require at least four biopsies. Confocal laser endomicroscopy is able to magnify the tissue by 1000X, which can be seen at the cellular level. Observing goblet cells under Confocal laser endomicroscopy is simpler and diagnostic accuracy is comparable to pathology. Confocal laser endomicroscopy enables better assessment of intestinal metaplasia in gastric mucosa, thus quantifying the risk of gastric cancer and avoiding multiple biopsies.
Detection and differentiation of esophageal squamous neoplasia (ESN) are of value in improving patient outcomes. Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) can diagnose ESN accurately.However this requires much experience, which limits the application of pCLE. The investigators designed a computer-aided diagnosis program using deep neural network to make diagnosis automatically in pCLE examination and contrast its performance with endoscopists.
Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is an endoscopic technique that enables to evaluate the inflammation activity of ulcerative colitis with excellent correlation with histopathology. However this requires much experience, which limits the application of pCLE. The investigators designed a computer-aided diagnosis program using deep neural network to make diagnosis automatically in pCLE examination and contrast its performance with endoscopists.