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      Linked color imaging application for improving the endoscopic diagnosis accuracy: a pilot study

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          Endoscopy has been widely used in diagnosing gastrointestinal mucosal lesions. However, there are still lack of objective endoscopic criteria. Linked color imaging (LCI) is newly developed endoscopic technique which enhances color contrast. Thus, we investigated the clinical application of LCI and further analyzed pixel brightness for RGB color model. All the lesions were observed by white light endoscopy (WLE), LCI and blue laser imaging (BLI). Matlab software was used to calculate pixel brightness for red (R), green (G) and blue color (B). Of the endoscopic images for lesions, LCI had significantly higher R compared with BLI but higher G compared with WLE (all P < 0.05). R/(G + B) was significantly different among 3 techniques and qualified as a composite LCI marker. Our correlation analysis of endoscopic diagnosis with pathology revealed that LCI was quite consistent with pathological diagnosis (P = 0.000) and the color could predict certain kinds of lesions. ROC curve demonstrated at the cutoff of R/(G+B) = 0.646, the area under curve was 0.646, and the sensitivity and specificity was 0.514 and 0.773. Taken together, LCI could improve efficiency and accuracy of diagnosing gastrointestinal mucosal lesions and benefit target biopsy. R/(G + B) based on pixel brightness may be introduced as a objective criterion for evaluating endoscopic images.

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                Journal
                Sci Rep
                Sci Rep
                Scientific Reports
                Nature Publishing Group
                2045-2322
                19 September 2016
                2016
                : 6
                : 33473
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Gastroenterology, the 307 Hospital of Academy of Military Medical Science , Beijing 100171, China
                [2 ]Department of Internal Medicine, Clinic of August First Film Studio , Beijing 100161, China
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                Theses authors contributed equally to this work.

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                srep33473
                10.1038/srep33473
                5027569
                27641243
                d36be347-bc99-47a4-ac56-86b36a145114
                Copyright © 2016, The Author(s)

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