MA 20.08 Classification of Confocal Endomicroscopy Patterns for Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

Solitary pulmonary nodules diagnosis and management is so challenging that new endoscopic techniques are being introduced to reduce uncertainty in peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPL) diagnosis and management increase its diagnostic yield. Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is a technique that can microscopically image the lung tissue in vivo during flexible bronchoscopy, though it can be difficult for pulmonologists to distinguish cellular patterns in a monochrome vision under respiratory and cardiac movements. The goal of this work is to explore if Computed-Aided Diagnoses (CAD) tools can obtain a reliable diagnoses with pCLE in lung cancer.