Real-time in-vivo endoscopic imaging of fluorescence from human colonic adenomas

Thomas D. Wang; Jacques Van Dam; James M. Crawford; Yang Wang; Irving Itzkan; Michael S. Feld

doi:10.1117/12.307335

10 April 1998 Real-time in-vivo endoscopic imaging of fluorescence from human colonic adenomas

Thomas D. Wang, Jacques Van Dam, James M. Crawford, Yang Wang, Irving Itzkan, Michael S. Feld

Proceedings Volume 3259, Systems and Technologies for Clinical Diagnostics and Drug Discovery; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307335
Event: BiOS '98 International Biomedical Optics Symposium, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Previous in vitro studies showed that autofluorescence images of colonic mucosa collected endoscopically can be used to detect dysplasia with high sensitivity. This method is extended to collection of fluorescence images of adenomatous polyps in vivo. Fluorescence images were collected during colonoscopy in 30 patients. A total of 12 adenomatous and 6 hyperplastic polyps were identified. An optical fiber excitation probe, located in the instrument channel of the colonoscope, delivered 300 mW of near- ultraviolet light at (lambda) _ex equals 351 and 364 nm. Mucosal fluorescence in the spectral bandwidth between 400 and 700 nm was imaged, processed, and displayed with various likelihoods of associated dysplasia. Adenomatous polyps exhibited decreased fluorescence intensity compared to adjacent mucosa with normal appearance. With the fluorescence threshold set to 80% of the average intensity of normal mucosa, a sensitivity of 83% for dysplasia detection was achieved. All hyperplastic polyps were correctly identified as being non-dysplastic. Optimal identification of dysplastic regions was obtained with the colonoscope oriented at near-normal incidence to the polyps. At higher angles of incidence, artifacts due to illumination shadows were introduced. The dysplasia associated with adenomatous polyps can be detected in vivo on fluorescence imaging with high sensitivity, thus demonstrating the potential to guide endoscopic biopsy.

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Thomas D. Wang, Jacques Van Dam, James M. Crawford, Yang Wang, Irving Itzkan, and Michael S. Feld "Real-time in-vivo endoscopic imaging of fluorescence from human colonic adenomas", Proc. SPIE 3259, Systems and Technologies for Clinical Diagnostics and Drug Discovery, (10 April 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307335

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