COPENHAGEN — Within the rising tide of studies extolling the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for improving adenoma detection during colonoscopy comes new research suggesting the contrary, at least among people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Researchers retrospectively studied almost 1000 colonoscopies before and after introduction of an AI system (GI Genius, Medtronic) at a tertiary medical center in Israel in which a large volume of endoscopies was performed. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) was higher overall with colonoscopies that were performed before the introduciton of AI, and it was significantly higher for colonoscopies performed by gastroenterologists who had 5 or more years of experience, compared to the ADR for AI-assisted colonoscopies.