Enhancing the quality and utility of disease assessment modalities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Accurate disease activity assessment is an important aspect of medical conditions including inflammatory bowel diseases that affect the human gastrointestinal tract. This thesis identified the impact of small bowel imaging quality in the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease activity. Furthermore, this thesis also highlighted the utility of currently used and novel non-invasive stool and blood tests in the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease activity.