Comparison of performances of artificial intelligence versus expert endoscopists for real-time assisted diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (with video)

Background and Aims Narrow-band imaging (NBI) is currently regarded as the standard modality for diagnosing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). We developed a computerized image-analysis system for diagnosing esophageal SCC by NBI and estimated its performance with video images. Methods Altogether, 23,746 images from 1544 pathologically proven superficial esophageal SCCs and 4587 images from 458 noncancerous and normal tissue were used to...