Optical coherence tomography allows physicians to shine a light into the colon and see deeper to diagnose abnormalities more accurately.
Students used traditional imaging data from optical coherence tomography to teach a machine how to differentiate normal from cancerous colon tissue, according to a university press release.
Combining the two technologies allowed for researchers to diagnose cancerous tissue with 93 percent accuracy.
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