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. 2021 Jul 4;55(1):323–343. doi: 10.1007/s10462-021-10034-y

Table 2.

Endoscopic studies involving artificial intelligence for diagnosis and prediction of colorectal cancer

AI algorithm/system Study design Sensitivity Specificity AUC Accuracy
Ichimasa et al. (2018) SVM Prediction of lymph node metastasis post endoscopic resection of T1 colorectal cancer 100% 66% 69%
Nakajima et al. (2020) CNN Automatic diagnosis system by computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) based on plain endoscopic images 81% 87% 0.888 84%
Lai et al. (2021) DNN Improve polyp detection and discrimination by CAD 100% 100% 74–95%
Yamada et al. (2019) CNN Develop a real-time detection system for colorectal neoplasm 97.3% 99% 0.975 Good and excellent*
Chen et al. (2019) DNN Develop a CAD diagnosis system to analyze narrow-bind images 96.3% 78.1% 90.1
Repici et al. (2020) CNN To assess the safety and efficacy of a computer-aided detection (CADe) system
Kudo et al. (2020) CNN To determine diagnostic accuracy of EndoBRAIN 96.9% 100% 98%
Mori et al. (2018) SVM Evaluate the performance of real-time CADe with endocytoscope 91.3–95.2% 65.6–95.9%
Nguyen et al. (2020) CNN To pre-classify the in vivo endoscopic images 19.6–87.4% 42.5–90.6% 52.6–68.9%
Deding et al. (2020) To investigate relative sensitivity of colon capsule endoscopies compared with computer tomography colongraphy 2.67#

SVM: support vector machines; CNN: convolutional neural network; DNN: deep neural network; AUC: area under the curve from the receiver operating characteristics; *shown using intersection over the union (IOU); #relative sensitivity