Michael Wallace, MD, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Mayo Clinic/Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City in Abu Dhabi, spoke with Becker’s to discuss the future of tech in gastroenterology.
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Question: Where is GI tech headed?
Dr. Michael Wallace: Everything we look at through an endoscope is now being applied through an [artificial intelligence] lens. The polyp detection is the most obvious application of that — it’s the low-hanging fruit. What we’re going to see quite rapidly now is AI applied to everything else that we look at. You see something that looks red to you and you say, “This is inflammation.” You see a flat lesion in the stomach that may be an early cancer. You see inflammation in the colon that is maybe colitis and you’re trying to grade that.