Endoscopy
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The ability to observe and manipulate tissue structure and function within the human body in minimally invasive ways improves clinical diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of pathological conditions. In this joint collection between Communications Engineering, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports, we bring together engineering research that improves endoscopic technologies and instruments, with clinical research describing the latest progress using endoscopy to improve patient outcomes.
Better tools can lead to improved diagnostic capability, less invasive approaches, and greater functionality, such as combinatorial imaging and precision treatments. From an engineering perspective, relevant topics include: endoscope design considering different imaging modalities, multimodal and multifunctional platforms, robotic and wireless approaches, data driven methods such as machine learning, and the incorporation of materials and approaches to prevent tissue injury (such as hydrogels). We also encourage submissions covering clinical applications that represent significant advances in diagnosis or treatment, including comparisons of different approaches, new applications and improvements to existing approaches. In bringing the technological and clinical communities together, we hope to create interdisciplinary interest, discussion and maybe even initiate new collaborations to advance this important biomedical imaging platform.
Editors
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Richard J. Colchester
University College London, UK
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Thanh Nho Do
UNSW SYDNEY, Australia
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Janani Reisenauer
Mayo Clinic, USA
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Barham Abu Dayyeh
Mayo Clinic, USA
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Qinggong Tang
University of Oklahoma, USA
Dr. Richard Colchester is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow based in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College London. His research focuses on the development of imaging, sensing and therapeutic devices for use in minimally invasive surgery. He is developing an all-optical platform technology, utilising optical fibres to fabricate miniaturised devices (< 1mm diameter) using modalities including Optical Ultrasound (OpUS), Photoacoustic Imaging, and Laser Ablation and Therapy. To this end he has developed several novel devices and materials. His research interests cover a broad range of medical devices, technologies and applications.
Dr. Thanh Nho Do is currently a Scientia Lecturer at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia where he heads the UNSW Medical Robotics Lab. In 2015, he received his PhD degree in Surgical Robotics from the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California Santa Barbara, USA. He also worked as a Research Fellow and group leader at the Robotic Research Centre (RRC), NTU, Singapore. His research interests include soft robotics, surgical robotics, wearable haptics, human-machine interaction, heart assistive devices, functional materials, capsule endoscopy, nonlinear control, and mechatronics in medicine. Do is an editorial board member for Communications Engineering.
Dr. Janani Reisenauer is the Division Chair of Thoracic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. She earned both her bachelor’s degree and Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama and she completed her residency and two fellowships at Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education in Rochester, Minnesota. Her team specializes in robotic bronchoscopy, a minimally invasive technique that allows her to detect lung cancers with more accuracy than traditional bronchoscopy. As Director of the Innovation Center for the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic, she leads the annual Beahrs Surgical Innovation Summit, where Mayo Clinic doctors and medtech startups work toward advancing the future of surgical care, together.
Dr. Barham Abu Dayyeh is a Professor of Medicine, Director of Advanced Endoscopy at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vice Research Chair for Device and Procedural Innovation at the Department of Medicine, and Assistant Medical Director for Business Development at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He undertook post-graduate medical training at Harvard. Dr. Abu Dayyeh is an inventor of multiple medical devices and surgical endoscopic procedures. He has received multiple awards, including the Jordanian Star of Science Award given by his Majesty King Abdulla the Second during the World Science Forum in Dead Sea Jordan 2017 and The Surgical Innovator Award given by The American Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery 2022.
Dr. Qinggong Tang is an Assistant Professor at the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma. His research has been focused on the development of novel optical imaging techniques for biomedical applications including early cancer detection, cancer therapy monitoring, surgical guidance, and brain functional imaging. Dr. Tang has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2023.
