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Trial reportEndoscopy2023

Computer-aided diagnosis for optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps including sessile serrated lesions: a real-time comparison with screening endoscopists.

Britt B S L Houwen, Yark Hazewinkel, Ioannis Giotis, Jasper L A Vleugels, Nahid S Mostafavi, Paul van Putten, Paul Fockens, Evelien Dekker, POLAR Study Group

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Endoscopy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Computer-aided diagnosis for colorectal polyp in comparison with endoscopists: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2025
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  18. [Role of Artificial Intelligence in Improving Quality of Colonoscopy].The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Britt B S L HouwenDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1920-8947
Yark HazewinkelDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Ioannis GiotisZiuZ Visual Intelligence, Gorredijk, the Netherlands.
Jasper L A VleugelsDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Nahid S MostafaviDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Subdivision Statistics, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Paul van PuttenDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Paul FockensDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Evelien DekkerDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4363-0745
POLAR Study Group
Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NLAmsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam · NLBergman Clinics · NLMedisch Centrum Leeuwarden · NLRadboud University Nijmegen · NLStichting Afasie Nederland · NL

Funding

NA The province of FrieslandPPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, to the Dutch Digestive Disease Foundation to stimulate public-private partnerships TKI 18-01the European Regional Development Fund region Northern-Netherlands UP-18-00565The province of Friesland NATKI 18-01 PPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, to the Dutch Digestive Disease Foundation to stimulate public-private partnershipsUP-18-00565 the European Regional Development Fund region Northern-Netherlands
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe aimed to compare the accuracy of the optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps, including sessile serrated lesions (SSLs), between a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system and endoscopists during real-time colonoscopy.

methodsWe developed the POLyp Artificial Recognition (POLAR) system, which was capable of performing real-time characterization of diminutive colorectal polyps. For pretraining, the Microsoft-COCO dataset with over 300 000 nonpolyp object images was used. For training, eight hospitals prospectively collected 2637 annotated images from 1339 polyps (i. e. publicly available online POLAR database). For clinical validation, POLAR was tested during colonoscopy in patients with a positive fecal immunochemical test (FIT), and compared with the performance of 20 endoscopists from eight hospitals. Endoscopists were blinded to the POLAR output. Primary outcome was the comparison of accuracy of the optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps between POLAR and endoscopists (neoplastic [adenomas and SSLs] versus non-neoplastic [hyperplastic polyps]). Histopathology served as the reference standard.

resultsDuring clinical validation, 423 diminutive polyps detected in 194 FIT-positive individuals were included for analysis (300 adenomas, 41 SSLs, 82 hyperplastic polyps). POLAR distinguished neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesions with 79 % accuracy, 89 % sensitivity, and 38 % specificity. The endoscopists achieved 83 % accuracy, 92 % sensitivity, and 44 % specificity. The optical diagnosis accuracy between POLAR and endoscopists was not significantly different (

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AdenomaColonic PolypsColorectal NeoplasmsColonoscopyComputersHumansNarrow Band ImagingPredictive Value of Tests

Identifiers

PMID36623839
PMCPMC10374350
OpenAlexW4313892703

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