Early detection and accurate diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma are crucial for successful treatment, yet current methods can be invasive and even inaccurate in some cases. In this work, we present a novel approach for in vivo tissue diagnostics of colorectal carcinoma using Raman spectroscopy. This almost non-invasive technique allows for fast and accurate detection of colorectal carcinoma and its precursors, adenomatous polyps, enabling timely intervention and improved patient outcomes. Using several methods of supervised machine learning, we were able to achieve over 91% accuracy in distinguishing colorectal lesions from healthy epithelial tissue and more than 90% classification accuracy for premalignant adenomatous polyps. Moreover, our models enabled the discrimination of cancerous and precancerous lesions with a mean accuracy of almost 92%. Such results demonstrate the potential of in vivo Raman spectroscopy to become a valuable tool in the fight against colon cancer.

4th Department of Internal Medicine General University Hospital Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague U Nemocnice 2 128 08 Prague 2 Czech Republic

Department of Analytical Chemistry University of Chemistry and Technology Prague Technická 5 166 28 Prague 6 Czech Republic

Department of Oncology General University Hospital Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague U Nemocnice 2 128 08 Prague 2 Czech Republic

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