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Suspected blood indicator in capsule endoscopy: a valuable tool for gastrointestinal bleeding diagnosis

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
BACKGROUND Small bowel bleeding is a leading indication for small bowel capsule endoscopy. The Suspected Blood Indicator (SBI) is a software feature directed to automatically detect bleeding lesions during small bowel capsule endoscopy.
Pedro BOAL CARVALHO, Joana MAGALHÃES, Francisca DIAS DE CASTRO, Sara MONTEIRO, Bruno ROSA, Maria João MOREIRA, José COTTER   +6 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
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Roles of Capsule Endoscopy and Balloon-Assisted Enteroscopy in the Optimal Management of Small Bowel Bleeding [PDF]

Clinical Endoscopy, 2020
The small bowel had long been considered a dark unapproachable tunnel until the invention of capsule endoscopy and doubleballoon enteroscopy in the 21st century, which revolutionized the diagnosis and management of small bowel diseases, including ...
Hani Abutalib, Tomonori Yano, Satoshi Shinozaki, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Hironori Yamamoto   +4 more
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Dual‐Functional Ingestible Passive Capsules for High‐Throughput Intestinal Sampling with Sealed Containment and Targeted Drug Delivery

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
To address challenges in high‐throughput intestinal sampling with sealed containment and target drug delivery, we developed a dual‐functional ingestible passive capsule with a dual‐triggered control system based on pH‐response and mechanical actuation.
Libing Huang, Houyu Ling, Xizong Chen, Yufei Duan, Yu Liu, Shuntian Cai, Yandan Ren, Wenlong Li, Lei Ren, Miao Wang   +9 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning With Edge‐Contour‐Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents an anatomical landmark‐guided DRL framework for autonomous wireless capsule endoscopy navigation. Using a lightweight edge‐contour‐depth fusion module, it achieves over 97% coverage across diverse gastric anatomies. To ensure reliability, a two‐stage sim‐to‐real pipeline with an adaptive dynamic programming controller mitigates ...
Haoxuan Wu, Haitao Gao, Qingyang Liu, Sishen Yuan, Haiyang Fang, Mingwu Su, Baijia Liang, Yongzun Yang, Long Bai, Wenzhen Dong, Dihong Xie, Shijian Su, Jiewen Lai, Shing Shin Cheng, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren   +16 more
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Wireless, Deep‐Seeing Smart Pill: A NIR‐II Fluorescence Imaging Capsule Endoscope for Gastrointestinal Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel near‐infrared‐II fluorescent imaging capsule endoscope that detects specific fluorescence signals above 900 nm enables highly sensitive, targeted imaging of gastrointestinal cancer tissue. This wirelessly powered and magnetically controlled “smart pill” achieves high sensitivity and deep tissue penetration, allowing precise, non‐invasive ...
Weicheng Wang, Jinlei Jiang, Zhengting Wang, Shuqi Liu, Wei Wang, Xi Chen, Qirui Zhao, Xinyuan Cui, Cheng Zhou, Shengsheng Cui, Daxiang Cui   +10 more
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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Capability of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in Clinical Practice [PDF]

Clinical Endoscopy, 2016
Advances in technology have facilitated the common use of small-bowel imaging. Intraoperative enteroscopy was the gold standard method for small-bowel imaging. However, noninvasive capsule endoscopy and invasive balloon enteroscopy are currently the main
Umit Akyuz, Filiz Akyuz
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Multi‐Component Functionalized Bifidobacterium Longum Hydrogel for Multi‐Target Integrated Therapy of Colitis‐Associated Anxiety and Depression

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A pH/MMP dual‐responsive Bifidobacterium longum (BL) hydrogel (INPs@BL@Gel) functionalized with baicalin, tyrosine, and inulin is constructed. It enables gastric protection, inflammation‐targeted release, and prolonged intestinal colonization. By remodeling gut microbiota, elevating beneficial neuroactive metabolites (homovanillic acid, short‐chain ...
Shuo Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Jiansheng He, Shunlian Li, Qingyan Ma, Qiao Li, Yudan Zhang, Yiyang Wang, Shaobo Ma, Songyan Jin, Chune Li, Xueyong Xie, Hang Zhang, Junze Deng, Xueqin Song, Daocheng Wu, Xiancang Ma, Feng Zhu   +17 more
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Diagnosis of small-bowel varices by capsule endoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2004
Capsule endoscopy is being used increasingly to investigate GI bleeding of obscure origin and disorders of the small bowel.Four cases of small-bowel varices of various etiologies diagnosed by capsule endoscopy are described: a bleeding small-bowel varix because of hepatic portal hypertension, oozing small-bowel anastomotic or adhesion-related varices ...
Tang, S. J., Zanati, S., Dubcenco, E., Cirocco, M., Christodoulou, D., Kandel, G., Haber, G. B., Kortan, P., Marcon, N. E.   +8 more
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