Improve early cancer discovery rate of digestive tract.

The "endoscopic elf" of the digestive hospital is stunning worldwide. The picture shows Professor Yu Honggang on behalf of China for surgical demonstration in the live broadcast of endoscopy.

"This place can be optimized ..."

On the afternoon of July 21, in the conference room of the People's Hospital of Wuhan University, Director Yu Honggang had new ideas to further optimize the team's "endoscopic elves". Although in the past two years, he has published papers in a number of world -class medical issues in the world, which is well -known, and as of July 2022, the cumulative SCI impact factor has reached 372.288 points. Domestic and foreign digestive endoscopy experts have high recognition and lead the research direction of the digestive endoscopic industry, but he is not satisfied with this. He is also constantly optimizing and expanding new, allowing "endoscopic elves" to better assist doctors, improve early cancer discovery rate of digestive tract, and help more patients get rid of the potential threat of death.

Breaking

Lock artificial intelligence to improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment

The incidence of gastrointestinal tumors accounted for 43.5%of the total incidence of cancer in China. In 2020, the number of people in the digestive tract tumor in my country reached 1.36 million, and the number of deaths reached 960,000. Clinical statistics show that the 5 -year survival rate of digestive tract tumors has a clear division point: early detection of timely treatment rates exceeded 90%and the cure rate is as high as 95%, while the survival rate of patients in the middle and advanced stages is less than 25%.

Early cancer of the digestive tract is more hidden. Yu Honggang introduced that the level of diagnosis of endoscopic doctors is uneven, and in order to further improve the technical level, most of the doctors no longer simply do diagnosis, but perform surgery, so it is difficult for high -level endoscopy doctors to stay in the field of diagnosis.

How to break the game? Yu Honggang, who is committed to the basic research of early gastric cancer testing, locks his direction in artificial intelligence.

"In 2016, Alpha Dog defeated the Go World Championship. I was inspired to find an expert in computer to help us. At that time, there was no artificial intelligence in this field in this field." Yu Honggang said that through artificial intelligence technology In real time, an auxiliary endoscopy doctors are analyzed and dealt with, and the auxiliary doctors screen it to greatly improve the efficiency and quality of diagnosis and treatment.

Deepen

Just to save thousands of life

All beginnings are hard. For Honggang, it is difficult to be imaginative, and it is difficult to support any funding. Even their own students are not optimistic about this project. However, although only a dozen or two hundred thousand yuan of funds from Dongzhanxi have difficulty, it cannot be changed to Hong Gang's attachment.

"Even if the detection rate of early cancer is only increased by 1%, it means that thousands of life will be saved." This goal has always supported Yu Honggang.

After forming more than 30 research teams in 2017, "crazy" is a word used by teammates to describe Yu Honggang. Starting from clinical needs, we must first solve quality control, and then auxiliary diagnosis. Even at 1 am, as long as he was light, he would call team partners to improve, and the results were seen the next day.

In the idea of ​​the Red Gang team, they have to mark the stomach as 26 parts, like 26 rooms, scan through artificial intelligence technology one by one, accurately identify, and reduce the missed diagnosis rate.

For hundreds of days, the lanterns night battles, tens of thousands of experimental calculations, and a reasonable manuscript, "Talking on the paper" finally became a "endoscopic elf", becoming the third eye of a doctor, significantly reduced the digestive tract The blind spot rate of endoscopic examination.

Yu Honggang said: "It is equivalent to a very high -level expert standing next to you and telling you what to do next. At present, endoscopic elves have exceeded the level of Japanese endoscopic doctors in the world."

Achievement

"Endoscopy Elf" has been promoted nationwide

It has been three years since the first prototype of 2019, and this "small elves" have experienced more than 400 rapid iterations.

With the continuous improvement and optimization of the "endoscopic elves", more and more medical institutions have begun to improve the level of endoscopic diagnosis. At present, the "endoscopic elves" also entered Jianchuan County Hospital in Yunnan Province to carry out pilot work of health education and poverty alleviation. The detection rate of early cancer was increased from 0 to 63.64%, which achieved significant results. Local patients can obtain the most objective and authoritative endoscopic examinations without having to move to the provincial region hospital or to suffer.

"With the auxiliary of the endoscopic elves, the patient's biopsy rate has been greatly reduced, which has been reduced from 30%to 15%, which effectively saves unnecessary medical expenses." Yu Honggang said that "endoscopic elves" have been promoted and used nationwide in the country. At present, it has radiated to more than 220 hospitals across the country, and assisted doctors to discover more than 10,000 early gastrointestinal early cancer and pre -cancer lesions, saving about 1.1 billion yuan in treatment costs.

(Reporter Li Qing correspondent Hu Hong)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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