AI in endoscopy: is the computer innocent in case of missed cancer?

While doing a screening colonoscopy, the possibility of missing a lesion crosses our minds from time to time, especially after a negative procedure in which we failed to detect even a sub-centimeter adenoma. We then disregard this strange idea as a bad nightmare, while continuing our screening procedures. Don’t we deceive ourselves pretending that interval colorectal cancer (CRC) is not an issue, or if it is an issue, consider that the responsibility for it falls to other endoscopists who are much less skillful than us?

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22. September 2020

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