While the overall endoscope market is growing at a modest three percent (3%) per year, according to Teri Minor, a senior analyst at the technology market research firm of Frost & Sullivan, there are a few segments growing at much faster rates such as the gastrointestinal segment. "They have new technologies, like capsule endoscopy, which have growth rates through 2016 that could be as much as 18 or 19 percent a year," she said.