Recent advances in blood-based and artificial intelligence-enhanced approaches for gastrointestinal cancer diagnosis

Figure 1 Blood-based liquid biopsy in cancer diagnosis. In the peripheral blood of cancer patients, circulating cell-free nucleic acids, circulating tumor cells, and extracellular vesicles carry the tumor-associated information, which allow noninvasive diagnosis of cancer patients.

Figure 2 Applications of artificial intelligence in medical area. The effective combination of artificial intelligence and big data can provide efficient and accurate clinical-decision support for physicians. CT: Computed tomography; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging.