MedPage Today October 31, 2024
— At scale, the benefits of AI-assisted colonoscopy may not always outweigh the costs
Use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy led to a greater removal rate of exclusively benign lesions compared with colonoscopies that did not use AI, according to data analyzed from a previous single-center prospective study.
About a third more polypectomies were performed only for benign lesions in the AI-assisted colonoscopy group than in an unassisted historical cohort (12.4% vs 8.4%, P=0.04), reported Tessa Herman, MD, of the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Health Care System, at the annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Philadelphia.
Although AI-assisted colonoscopy with computer-aided detection is intended to improve polyp detection, some previous low-quality evidence has suggested that...
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