AI Helps Radiologists Detect Bone Fractures
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AI helps radiologists detect bone fractures:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an effective tool for fracture detection that has potential to aid clinicians in busy emergency departments, according to a study in Radiology.
Missed or delayed diagnosis of fractures on X-ray is a common error with potentially serious implications for the patient. Lack of timely access to expert opinion as the growth in imaging volumes continues to outpace radiologist recruitment only makes the problem worse.
AI may help address this problem by acting as an aid to radiologists, helping to speed and improve fracture diagnosis.
[...] Dr. Kuo cautioned that research into fracture detection by AI remains in a very early, pre-clinical stage. Only a minority of the studies that she and her colleagues looked at evaluated the performance of clinicians with AI assistance, and there was only one example where an AI was evaluated in a prospective study in a clinical environment.
"It remains important for clinicians to continue to exercise their own judgment," Dr. Kuo said. "AI is not infallible and is subject to bias and error."
Journal References:
Rachel Y. L. Kuo, Conrad Harrison, Terry-Ann Curran, et al. Artificial Intelligence in Fracture Detection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Radiology (DOI: 211785)
Jeremie F. Cohen, Matthew D. F. McInnes. Deep Learning Algorithms to Detect Fractures: Systematic Review Shows Promising Results but Many Limitations, Radiology (DOI: 212966)
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