Artificial Intelligence in EUS for Diagnosing Pancreatic Solid Lesions

EUS is considered to be a more sensitive modality than CT in detecting pancreatic solid lesions due to its high spatial resolution. However, the diagnostic performance is largely dependent on the experience and the technical abilities of the practitioners. Therefore, we aim to develop an objective EUS diagnostic model based on the convolutional neural network, an artificial intelligence technique. In addition, clinical parameters such as risk factors, tumor biomarkers and radiology findings are also added to this artificial intelligence model in order to mimic the actual clinical diagnosis procedures and to increase the performance of this model.