New Research Finds Computer-Assisted Colonoscopy Identifies More Precancerous Polyps Compared to Traditional Colonoscopy (NYU Langone Health)

Colonoscopies performed with computer-aided detection, or artificial intelligence (AI), saw an increase in the overall rate of detection of adenoma, or cancerous and precancerous polyps, by 27 percent in average-risk patients, according to new data presented today at the Digestive Disease Week Annual Meeting. The results of the prospective, randomized, multicenter study, led by clinician–scientist Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and published online May 25 in the journal Gastroenterology, found that when AI was used during a screening colonoscopy, the adenoma per colonoscopy rate increased significantly by 22 percent, from 0.82 to 1.05 percent.