Software for enhanced video capsule endoscopy: challenges for essential progress

DK Iakovidis, A Koulaouzidis - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2015 - nature.com
Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) has revolutionized the diagnostic work-up in the field of
small bowel diseases. Furthermore, VCE has the potential to become the leading screening …

Advanced technologies for gastrointestinal endoscopy

P Valdastri, M Simi, RJ Webster III - Annual review of biomedical …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The gastrointestinal tract is home to some of the most deadly human diseases. Exacerbating
the problem is the difficulty of accessing it for diagnosis or intervention and the concomitant …

An implantable and conformal antenna for wireless capsule endoscopy

J Wang, M Leach, EG Lim, Z Wang… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes an implantable antenna with ultrawide bandwidth operating in the
medical device radio communications service band (401-406 MHz) for the wireless capsule …

Texture and color based image segmentation and pathology detection in capsule endoscopy videos

P Szczypiński, A Klepaczko, M Pazurek… - Computer methods and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents an in-depth study of several approaches to exploratory analysis of
wireless capsule endoscopy images (WCE). It is demonstrated that versatile texture and …

Hybrid localization of microrobotic endoscopic capsule inside small intestine by data fusion of vision and RF sensors

G Bao, K Pahlavan, L Mi - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) offers a noninvasive investigation of the entire small
intestine, which other conventional wired endoscopic instruments can barely reach. As a …

Automatic polyp detection for wireless capsule endoscopy images

B Li, MQH Meng - Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) opens a new stage for diagnosing gastrointestinal tract
diseases since it enables direct visualization of the small intestine for the first time. However …

A video-based speed estimation technique for localizing the wireless capsule endoscope inside gastrointestinal tract

G Bao, L Mi, Y Geng, M Zhou… - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is progressively emerging as one of the most popular
non-invasive imaging tools for gastrointestinal (GI) tract inspection. As a critical component …

OdoCapsule: next-generation wireless capsule endoscopy with accurate lesion localization and video stabilization capabilities

A Karargyris, A Koulaouzidis - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a platform to achieve accurate localization of small-bowel lesions
and endoscopic video stabilization in wireless capsule endoscopy. Current research …

Video-based measurements for wireless capsule endoscope tracking

E Spyrou, DK Iakovidis - Measurement Science and Technology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The wireless capsule endoscope is a swallowable medical device equipped with a
miniature camera enabling the visual examination of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It …

Automatic small bowel tumor diagnosis by using multi-scale wavelet-based analysis in wireless capsule endoscopy images

DC Barbosa, DB Roupar, JC Ramos… - Biomedical engineering …, 2012 - Springer
Background Wireless capsule endoscopy has been introduced as an innovative, non-
invasive diagnostic technique for evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract, reaching places …