In this article, we will explain our approach to tracking healthy organs in Gastrointestinal Tract MRI scans with the aim of improving gastrointestinal tract cancer treatment. Approximately 5 million new cases of gastrointestinal cancer are reported every year around the world, and 3.4 million result in deaths. Of these patients, only about half are eligible for radiation therapy. Radiation therapy necessitates the delivery of high doses of X-ray beam radiation pointed at tumors. Radiation oncologists must try to avoid the stomach and intestines while administering the treatment.

Capsule endoscopy (CE) has been increasingly utilised in recent years as a minimally invasive tool to investigate the whole gastrointestinal (GI) tract and a range of capsules are currently available for evaluation of upper GI, small bowel, and lower GI pathology. Although CE is undoubtedly an invaluable test for the investigation of small bowel pathology, it presents considerable challenges and limitations, such as long and laborious reading times, risk of missing lesions, lack of bowel cleansing score and lack of locomotion. Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be a promising tool that may help improve the performance metrics of CE, and consequently translate to better patient care. In the last decade, significant progress has been made to apply AI in the field of endoscopy, including CE. Although it is certain that AI will find soon its place in day-to-day endoscopy clinical practice, there are still some open questions and barriers limiting its widespread application. In this review, we provide some general information about AI, and outline recent advances in AI and CE, issues around implementation of AI in medical practice and potential future applications of AI-aided CE.

Children are developing long-term health problems because of the time they spend gaming or glued to devices, a leading doctor warned yesterday. Jo Begent, a paediatric consultant, said a boy of ten had come into her surgery with a deformation so severe that at first she believed it was a tumour. Further examination revealed the child had developed a dilated bowel because he had stopped himself from going to the toilet so he could carry on gaming. The boy was playing World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and FIFA for eight hours at a time, Dr Begent said. Dr Begent, who practises at University College London Hospital, said: 'I was doing my general paediatric clinic one day and a boy walked in, a ten-year-old limping and looking really poorly.

Theresa May will pledge millions of pounds of government funding to develop artificial intelligence able to transform outcomes through early diagnosis of cancer and chronic disease. In a speech in Mansfield on Monday that is being billed as the first of a series on industrial strategy, May will say: "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. "The development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings, opens up a whole new field of medical research and gives us a new weapon in our armoury in the fight against disease." May wants industry and charities to work with the NHS to develop algorithms that can use patient data and lifestyle information to warn GPs when a patient should be referred to an oncologist or another specialist. The plans envisage at least 50,000 people being diagnosed at an early stage of prostate, ovarian, lung or bowel ...

The autonomous car is unthinkable without ML and DL. Sensors monitor everything that the cars come across during their drives. Based on those data ML and DL accomplish their wondrous processing works. What I didn't know was that all those objects noticeable during the drives, all those data-entries are coded by real human beings, from frame to frame –and by real hands. A label for each tree passed by, each traffic sign, each threshold in front.

Despite its potential to save lives, many people fear the discomfort of having a colonoscopy. But in the future, tiny robots could be deployed to search for pre-cancerous lesions and tumours in the bowel, resulting in less discomfort for patients. While such robots sound like they belong in a sci-fi novel, researchers have shown an 18mm magnetised capsule colonoscope can perform intricate and sometimes autonomous movements inside the colon for the first time. Researchers have shown an 18mm magnetised capsule colonoscope (right) can perform intricate and sometimes autonomous movements inside the colon for the first time. The'capsule robot' was guided by an external magnet attached to a robotic arm (left) The'capsule robot' was paired with standard medical instruments and was guided by an external magnet attached to a robotic arm.

And on Wednesday, scientists reported that the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot could stitch together separate pieces of the bowel in pigs, the first time a surgical robot has completed a portion of an operation in living soft tissue without human guidance. The new paper, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, amounts to what's known as a proof of concept -- a demonstration that the new advance appears to be possible. Outside experts described it as a key achievement in efforts to move toward autonomous robotic surgery, but noted the technology is years away from being used in operating rooms, or even in a clinical trial. "It's one step forward," said Dr. Dragan Golijanin, director of the Minimally Invasive Urology Institute at the Miriam Hospital, an affiliate of Brown University, who was not involved in the research. Surgeons use robots in operating theaters around the country, but as it stands, they guide them like a puppeteer directs a marionette, conducting every move and response.

Earlier this year, robots withdrew in defeat from the hospital. Johnson & Johnson had been trying--operative word, trying--to sell a robot that can put patients to sleep for simple procedures like colonoscopies. Who did not like this? Human anesthesiologists, of course, whose jobs would be on the line. Professional groups lobbied hard against the device, questioning its safety. Even after the Food and Drug Administration approved the device, hospitals were wary.