Ingestible Health Care System Paradigm for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy

This chapter offers a survey of wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) and endoscopic imaging by evaluating some representative methodologies as well as that WCE technology is also used in colonoscopy. The detection of various organs inside the digestive tract is an important tool for the physician. The chapter presents challenges related to the WCE approaches. In diagnostic endoscopy, based on a distributed perception of local changes, the medical expert interprets the physical surface properties of the tissue, such as the roughness or the smoothness, the regularity, and the shape, to detect abnormalities. According to Fireman and Kopelman (2010): ?>Researchers have proposed the idea that endoscopists will be able to ?>control and steer?> the Capsule Endoscopy (CE), as they are able to do in standard endoscopy.?> The chapter also proposes the design of a WCE robotic capsule for diagnostic/therapeutic endoscopy.