LIFE provided a sensitivity of 96.4 % and specificity of 49.1 %, suggesting that this technique has limited clinical utility, regardless of the merits of acceptable interobserver bias and lack of necessity for experience with this technique.
Background: Previously, we reported that most gastrointestinal tumors could be distinguished with the Light-Induced Fluorescence Endoscopy for GastroIntestine system (LIFE-GI system) using a fiberscope. However, the quality of the fiberscopic images was inferior compared with videoscopic images. Therefore, we developed a new Auto-Fluorescence Imaging (AFI) videoscope system (manufactured by Olympus Corp.). Methods: We evaluated the clinical usefulness of the AFI videoscope system for the detection of colonic neoplasms. Using this system, we observed 168 colonic polyps. Results: Images obtained by AFI provided better brightness than autofluorescence fiberscopic images and lesion margins were clearly evident. It demonstrated excellent recognition capability to a small lesion that was difficult to be detected by conventional observation. Sensitivity was 89% and specificity 81%, with specificity higher than that of the autofluorescence fiberscopic images. Conclusions: This newly developed AFI videoscope system will be useful for the detection of colonic neoplasms.
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