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The study endpoints are the percentage of patients with adequate bowel preparation and the total BBPS score, compliance with dietary restrictions and purgative instructions, polyp detection rate, and adenoma detection rate (secondary). The prediction system has an accuracy of 95.15%, a specificity of 97.25%, and an area under the curve of 0.98 in the test dataset. In the full analysis set (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009500), adequate preparation is significantly higher in the AI-driven app group (88.54 vs. 65.59%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). The mean BBPS score is 6.74\u2009\u00b1\u20091.25 in the AI-driven app group and 5.97\u2009\u00b1\u20091.81 in the control group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). The rates of compliance with dietary restrictions (93.68 vs. 83.81%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.001) and purgative instructions (96.05 vs. 84.62%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) are significantly higher in the AI-driven app group, as is the rate of additional purgative intake (26.88 vs. 17.41%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.011). 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