JANUARY 16, 2017

Computer Vision Program IDs Adenomas

A novel computer vision program can identify colorectal adenomas with a high degree of accuracy, suggesting that such programs could soon have a place in the endoscopy suite, according to a study presented at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week.

Beginning with publicly available libraries of colonoscopic images and videos, a team of investigators developed and trained their own novel convolutional neural network (CNN)—an artificial neural network designed to mimic the visual cortex of an