World Journal of Gastroenterology
A breakthrough in diagnosis of enteric lesions
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, January 11th, 2009
Capsule endoscopy (CE), which is virtually a micro-camera, is a revolutionary diagnostic tool in diagnosing small bowel diseases, and CE can obtain 40-60 thousand images of the GI tract, though the number of the images for the lesions is smaller than 500 in most of the patients. The CE reader still has to scan ten thousands of the images one by one because the reader cannot make sure which images the lesions are in. So, it may be a big burden on the CE reader's eyes and energy.
In order to decrease the workload of the readers, a research team led by Prof. Wu and Dr. Gan from West China Hospital of Sichuan University developed a kind of image-processed software (IPS)...
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