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Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Colonoscopy

Improved ADR, quality reporting and reimbursement likely to follow

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AI is expected to be used commercially, either built into existing hardware or as an adjunct technology.

Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Colonoscopy

Improved ADR, quality reporting and reimbursement likely to follow

A few years ago, colonoscopes with three camera lenses entered the market. Until then, gastroenterologists who performed colonoscopies had relied for decades on a single-lens platform that provided a 180-degree field of view. The three-lens platform nearly doubled that figure and transformed colonoscopy, says gastroenterologist David Robbins, MD, medical director of Manhattan Endoscopy in New York, New York.

 


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