Improved lesion detection in optical colonoscopy
Optical colonoscopy has enabled early detection of colon cancer, at a time when it is fully treatable. However, its success in reducing colorectal cancer mortality has been only about half of the expected 90% reduction. One reason is that subtle lesions – subtle changes in the surface of the colon – are easily missed with conventional colonoscopy. This project addresses that need by a novel technique, called photometric stereo endoscopy, that captures the surface topology.
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M+Visión project Jan 2012 – Sep 2015
Sector
Oncology. Endoscopy. Colorectal cancer. Optics.
Fellows
Nicholas Durr, Daryl Lim, Vicente Parot, Germán González Serrano (original team)
Álvaro Sánchez-Ferro (joined 2013),
Jason Tucker-Schwartz, Luis Soenksen Martínez, Judith Birkenfeld (joined 2014)
Collaborators
Benjamin Vakoc
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH
Giovanni Traverso, Norman Nishioka
GI Surgery, MGH
Fernando Rodríguez Franco, Julio Mayol, Enrique Rey
HCSC
Media and updates
On August 1 2013, MIT News published a piece about Team Colo’s technology. https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/photometric-stereo-endoscopy-0801
On September 16, 2014, Team Colo member Germán González Serrano presented their work to MICCAI:
M+Visión Fellowship Alumnus Germán González Serrano presented a poster associated with the team’s paper, “Virtual chromoendoscopy augmented by topography (VCAT),” to MICCAI, The Medical Image Computing Computer Assisted Intervention Society, on September 16, 2014.
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