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Biomedical sensing technology is developing at a tremendous pace and is expected to become an effective clinical tool for the diagnosis and monitoring of human health. The development of sensing devices has successfully transformed the specific senso...

The primary pathogenesis associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) occurs in peripheral tissues several years before the onset of typical motor symptoms. Early and reliable diagnosis of PD could provide new treatment options for PD patients and...

Worldwide, gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for a significant amount of cancer-related mortality. Tests that allow an early diagnosis could lead to an improvement in patient survival. Liquid biopsies (LBs) due to their non-invasive nature as wel...

The presence of subtle mucosal abnormalities makes small bowel Crohn’s disease (SBCD) and other gastrointestinal lesions difficult to detect, as these features are often very subtle and can closely resemble other disorders. Although the Kvasir...

Stomach ulcers, a common type of gastrointestinal (GI) disease, pose serious health risks if not diagnosed and treated at an early stage. Therefore, in this research, a method is proposed based on two deep learning models for classification and segme...

Peptic ulcers and stomach cancer are common conditions that impact the gastrointestinal (GI) system. Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has emerged as a widely used, noninvasive technique for diagnosing these issues, providing valuable insights through...

Enteric viruses are responsible for a significant number of gastrointestinal illnesses in dogs globally. One of the main enteric viruses is the canine astrovirus (CaAstV), which causes diarrhea in dogs of various ages. It is linked to symptoms such a...

The gastrointestinal system contains the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts. The main tasks of the gastrointestinal system are to break down food and convert it into essential elements that the body can benefit from and expel waste in the form o...

(1) Background: Colorectal cancer is the second commonest cause of cancer deaths worldwide; recently, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have been proposed as potential biomarkers of this disease. In this paper, we aim to identify and review the avail...

Background: Quantum machine learning (QML) holds significant promise for advancing medical image classification. However, its practical application to large-scale, high-resolution datasets is constrained by the limited number of qubits and the inhere...

Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases have a high prevalence throughout the United States. Screening and diagnostic modalities are often expensive and invasive, and therefore, people do not utilize them effectively. Lack of proper screening and diagnostic a...

Background/Objectives: Gastrointestinal diseases (GID), such as oesophagitis, polyps, and ulcerative colitis, contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality. Conventional diagnostic methods employing white light imaging (WLI) in wireless...

This work aims to develop a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) named ResNet50* to detect various gastrointestinal diseases using a new ResNet50*-based deep feature engineering model with endoscopy images. The novelty of this work is the develop...

This study investigates how the learning order between segmentation and classification tasks influences performance and generalization in medical image analysis. We propose a Sequential Swin Transformer framework that reuses a shared Transformer back...

Gastroenterology faces significant challenges due to the global burden of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, driven by socio-economic disparities and their wide-ranging impact on health and healthcare systems. Advances in molecularly imprinted polymers...

This study reviews the recent progress of generative artificial intelligence for gastrointestinal disease (GID) from detection to diagnosis. The source of data was 16 original studies in PubMed. The search terms were ((gastro* [title]) or (endo* [tit...

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders comprise a diverse range of conditions that can significantly reduce the quality of life and can even be life-threatening in serious cases. The development of accurate and rapid detection approaches is of essential imp...

Background: Calprotectin (CP) is a calcium- and zinc-binding protein that plays a key role in innate immunity and in the recruitment of inflammatory cells. CP can be detected both in serum and in fecal samples. Serum CP (sCP) is more specific for aut...

The first step in the diagnosis of gastric abnormalities is the detection of various abnormalities in the human gastrointestinal tract. Manual examination of endoscopy images relies on a medical practitioner’s expertise to identify inflammatory...

Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) metabolomic approaches are widely used to investigate underlying pathogenesis of gastrointestinal disease and mechanism of action of treatments. However, there is an unmet requirement to as...

Delta neutrophil index (DNI) is a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of various infectious or inflammatory conditions. However, data on optimal measurement time are scarce, and no studies have evaluated the potential role of the DNI as a progn...

Gastrointestinal disease is prevalent and broad, manifesting itself in a variety of ways, including inflammation, fibrosis, infection, and cancer. However, historically, diagnostic technologies have exhibited limitations, especially with regard to di...

In the last decade, the role of nutritional management in pediatric gastrointestinal diseases has gained increasing popularity. Disease-specific diets have been introduced as conventional treatments by international guidelines. Patients tend to more...

Periodontitis can disrupt oral and gut microbiota, leading to dysbiosis that affects overall systemic health. Besides the spread of periodontal pathogens by the hematogenous route, they can also be translocated into the gastrointestinal tract, possib...

Background/Objectives: Rapid and accurate pathogen identification is essential for the proper management of patients with infectious gastroenteritis, as well as for a better control of disease outbreaks. This observational, non-interventional, single...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the pediatric population presents distinct characteristics compared to adult cases. Pathology plays a critical role in its diagnosis, and this review underscores key considerations in the pathologic evaluation of p...

Rapid and accurate detection of the causes of gastrointestinal diseases in farmed and companion animals is crucial for advancing livestock farming and safeguarding public health safety. Diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria infections often result i...

Astroviruses cause disease in a variety of species. Yet, little is known about the epidemiology of a majority of astroviruses including porcine astrovirus type 3 (PoAstV3), which is a putative cause of polioencephalomyelitis in swine. Accordingly, a...

Over 1014 symbiotic microorganisms are present in a healthy human body and are responsible for the synthesis of vital vitamins and amino acids, mediating cellular pathways and supporting immunity. However, the deregulation of microbial dynamics can p...

Recent advances in endoscopic technology allow clinicians to not only detect digestive diseases early, but also provide appropriate treatment. The development of various therapeutic endoscopic technologies has changed the paradigm in the treatment of...

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are extracellular fibrous networks consisting of depolymerized chromatin DNA skeletons with a variety of antimicrobial proteins. They are secreted by activated neutrophils and play key roles in host defense and i...

(1) Background: We aimed to identify the possible relationship between various diseases of the upper digestive system and colon polyps by analyzing patients with gastric polyps and evaluating the cancers and diseases accompanying the polyps. (2) Meth...

Enteroviruses are a major source of human disease, particularly in neonates and young children where infections can range from acute, self-limited febrile illness to meningitis, endocarditis, hepatitis, and acute flaccid myelitis. The enterovirus gen...

Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus; GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal invasive disease worldwide. GBS can colonize the human gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, and the anovaginal colonization of pregnant women is the main sourc...

Coeliac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disorder triggered by the ingestion of gluten that is associated with gastrointestinal issues, including diarrhea, abdominal pain, and malabsorption. Gluten is a general name for a class of cereal storage protein...

Parasitic diseases can affect animal health and welfare, and they may also constitute a danger to public health, particularly in island ecosystems. Fecal samples were collected from 205 dogs and 115 cats on the islands of São Miguel and Tercei...

Waterborne disease outbreaks (WBDOs) remain a public health issue in developed countries, but to date the surveillance of WBDOs in France, mainly based on the voluntary reporting of clusters of acute gastrointestinal infections (AGIs) by general prac...

Background and Objectives: In this study, we investigated the frequency and type of second primary malignant tumors (SPMTs) accompanying gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), patient and tumor characteristics, and follow-up and survival data. Mate...

The study of intestinal permeability is gaining growing interest due to its relevance in the onset and progression of several gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal diseases. Though the involvement of impaired intestinal permeability in the pathop...

Feeding problems are associated with the consumption of a limited amount or restricted variety of foods and often occur in children with gastrointestinal diseases. The majority of studies to date do not use valid and reliable measurements to detect f...

The detection of cancer at its earliest stage is crucial in order to increase the probability of a successful treatment. Optical techniques, specifically diffuse reflectance and fluorescence, may considerably improve the ability to detect pre-cancero...

Calprotectin (CP) is an established biomarker that allows the noninvasive evaluation of inflammation levels in the gastrointestinal tract of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and is helpful for the diagnosis and management of the disease. Here...

Paratuberculosis (PTB), caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), causes significant financial losses in the ruminant industry. The aim of this study is to describe the concomitant pathological findings as well as PTB-induced l...

Volatile organic compounds have drawn significant attention in recent years as a novel tool for non-invasive detection of a wide range of diseases, including gastrointestinal cancers, for which the need for effective, affordable, and non-invasive scr...

Background and aim: The necessity and diagnostic yield of routine gastroscopy in Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)-positive patients with normal colonoscopy findings remains controversial and poorly defined. Here, we aimed to investigate the prevalence...

Defining predictive biomarkers for targeted therapies and optimizing anti-tumor immune response is a main challenge in ongoing investigations. Progastrin has been studied as a potential biomarker for detecting and diagnosing various malignancies, and...

Esophageal and gastric cancers are common diseases with high morbidity and mortality; thus, early detection and treatment are beneficial to improve prognosis. Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is a novel imaging technique that permits the histologi...

Limited data exist regarding the full array of clinical signs seen in dogs with pancreatitis and potential risk factors for the disease. Laboratory submissions from the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University were retrospectively revi...

Cryptosporidium is an important protozoan parasite that can cause gastrointestinal diseases in humans and that also causes respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases in birds. In this study, we investigated the occurrence of Cryptosporidium species in...

In western countries patients with a Trypanosoma cruzi infection and with Chagas cardiomyopathy are rare. We report the case of a patient with Chagas cardiomyopathy in Switzerland. Methods: The family history was consistent with a possible T. cruzi i...