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. 2024 Sep 9;73(10):1603-1606.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2024-332894.

Endocytoscopy with automated multispectral intestinal barrier pathology imaging for assessment of deep healing to predict outcomes in ulcerative colitis

Snehali Majumder  1   2   3 , Giovanni Santacroce  1 , Yasuharu Maeda  1 , Irene Zammarchi  1 , Miguel Puga-Tejada  1 , Ilaria Ditonno  1 , Brian Hayes  3 , Rory Crotty  3 , Eanna Fennell  4 , Uday N Shivaji  2   5 , Zainab Abdawn  6 , Rahul Hejmadi  6 , Tommaso Lorenzo Parigi  2   5 , Olga Maria Nardone  2   5 , Paul Murray  4 , Louise Burke  3 , Subrata Ghosh  1 , Marietta Iacucci  7   2   5
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Endocytoscopy with automated multispectral intestinal barrier pathology imaging for assessment of deep healing to predict outcomes in ulcerative colitis

Snehali Majumder et al. Gut. .
No abstract available

Keywords: ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINAL BARRIER FUNCTION; MAGNIFYING COLONOSCOPY; TIGHT JUNCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1. Ultra-high magnification endocytoscopy driving machine learning-enabled multispectral spatial intestinal barrier protein imaging. Created with BioRender.com.
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Figure 2. Kaplan-Meier for the cumulative probabilities of being relapse-free according to endocytoscopy score (A), mean expression of Claudin-2 (B), Cell density of Claudin-2 (C) and combination of endocytoscope with mean expression and cell density of Claudin-2 (D) Created with BioRender.com. CD, cell-density; ECS, endocytoscopy score; MAO, major adverse outcome; ME, mean expression.
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