Current and Future advances in AI and Robotics for GI Endoscopy

Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics had gained significant technological advancement. Currently, AI has been applied in the process of quality assurance, detection and characterization of GI pathologies. AI system will enhance therapeutic endoscopy in risk prediction, directing therapeutic options as well as guiding the performance of advanced procedures like ESD, POEM, and EFTR.
With the enhanced detection through AI, imaging and screening, early GI cancers will be diagnosed. Endoscopic resection for these early GI cancers will be enhanced by development of advanced flexible robotics with improvement in safety, quality and efficacy. Robotic endoscopic technology will shorten the learning curve. Nanorobot will allow endoluminal diagnosis and therapy to reach beyond gastrointestinal tract to micro and nano level especially in targeted drug delivery. In future, with the combination of advanced imaging, AI, flexible robotics and nanorobotics, we will expect semi-automatic diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures for GI diseases.
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