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World J Gastroenterol. Jun 14, 2023; 29(22): 3561-3573
Published online Jun 14, 2023. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v29.i22.3561
Research trends on artificial intelligence and endoscopy in digestive diseases: A bibliometric analysis from 1990 to 2022
Ren-Chun Du, Yao-Bin Ouyang, Yi Hu
Ren-Chun Du, Yao-Bin Ouyang, Yi Hu, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China
Yao-Bin Ouyang, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Yi Hu, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Author contributions: Du RC and Ouyang YB performed the literature search and collected the data; Du RC performed the statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript; Hu Y designed the study, conceived and revised the manuscript; and all authors contributed to the article and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 82000531; Project for Academic and Technical Leaders of Major Disciplines in Jiangxi Province, No. 20212BCJL23065; Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province, No. 20212BBG73018; and Youth Project of the Jiangxi Natural Science Foundation, No. 20202BABL216006.
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Corresponding author: Yi Hu, MD, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No. 17 Yong Waizheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China. ndyfy06202@ncu.edu.cn
Received: March 4, 2023
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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in gastrointestinal endoscopy examinations.

Research motivation

More than 100 million subjects receive gastrointestinal endoscopy examinations each year. It is of great importance to improve the quality of endoscopy examinations to discover the lesions. With the development of AI, it has been extensively used in gastrointestinal endoscopy examinations.

Research objectives

To provide a comprehensive analysis of AI applied in diagnostic endoscopy.

Research methods

Relevant publications from the Web of Science published from 1990 to 2022 were extracted using a combination of the search terms “AI” and “endoscopy”.

Research results

AI-assisted digestive endoscopy could improve the diagnosis rate of endoscopists in disease detection, and convolutional neural network-based diagnosis programs for endoscopic images showed promising results.

Research conclusions

AI could improve the detection rate of digestive tract diseases and has been applied widely in the field of endoscopy. Multicenter prospective studies with larger samples should be conducted in the future to further explore the accuracy of AI based on different methods.

Research perspectives

Gastrointestinal cancers seriously threaten the health of global populations. Gastrointestinal tumors diagnosed at an early stage had a better prognosis than those diagnosed at a late stage. AI represents a fundamental breakthrough in the field of diagnostic endoscopy by assisting endoscopists with the detection of gastrointestinal tumors and it has been extensively used in gastrointestinal endoscopy examinations.