Software for enhanced video capsule endoscopy: Challenges for essential progress

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 172-186

  Iakovidis, Dimitris K ^a   Koulaouzidis, Anastasios ^b  

^a University of Central Greece   (Greece)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COOPERATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC RELATIONS; TRENDS;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84924239622     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.13     Document Type: Review

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