Endoscopy 2018; 50(04): S149
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1637480
ESGE Days 2018 ePosters
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

TINTED CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY

O Rukundo
1   Karlstad, Sweden
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E Toth
2   Lund University, Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
› Author Affiliations
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Publication History

Publication Date:
27 March 2018 (online)

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Aims:

Unlike virtual chromoendoscopy-assisted capsule endoscopy, “tinted capsule endoscopy” aims at using a tinted optical dome and/or LEDs in the effort to enhance the detection and characterization of pathologies in capsule endoscopy images.

Methods:

For pathological detection and characterization purpose, the following strategies will be used:

  1. Capsule endoscope with a tinted optical dome.

  2. Capsule endoscope with tinted LEDs.

Challenges: Finding a company that can accept to produce capsule endoscope with tinted optical domes and LEDs following our recommendations.

Results:

At least 300 patients are expected to be screened worldwide, using “tinted capsule endoscopy” vs. both “traditional capsule endoscopy and virtual chromoendoscopy-assisted capsule endoscopy”. Obtained results are to be communicated after the experiments are completed.

Conclusions:

Tinted capsule endoscopy is expected to achieve superior performances in terms of detection and characterization of specific pathologies compared to the chromoendoscopy-assisted capsule endoscopy and traditional capsule endoscopy.