Intestine and Lower Gastrointestinal Tract · 30 December 2025

Virtual Scale Endoscopy Outperforms Traditional Polyp Measurement

Virtual Scale Endoscopy (VSE) significantly enhances accuracy in colorectal polyp size measurement, improving surgical decisions and patient outcomes.

VSE improved measurement accuracy by 14.5% compared to visual assessment.
Reduced total misclassifications from 73.6% to 54.3% with VSE.

This suggests VSE could be crucial for better polypectomy and surveillance decisions.

VSE also minimized overestimation rates from 41.5% to 22.5%.

Review by Elgendy MS, Rifai M (…) Adler DG et 7 al. in Gastrointest Endosc

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