Table 1.

Evidence of the Potential Use of Advanced Endoscopic Imaging Techniques in IBD

	Dye chromoendoscopy	Dye-less chromoendoscopy	Endocytoscopy	Confocal laser endomicroscopy
Dysplasia detection	+++	–	–	+
Assessment of mucosal inflammation	++	+++	++	+++
Prediction of clinical relapse	–	–	–	+++
Molecular imaging for therapeutic response to biologics	–	–	–	+

IBD, inflammatory bowel disease.