Clinical benefit of AI-assisted lung ultrasound in a resource-limited intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interpreting point-of-care lung ultrasound (LUS) images from intensive care unit (ICU) patients can be challenging, especially in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) where there is limited training available. Despite recent advances in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate many ultrasound imaging analysis tasks, no AI-enabled LUS solutions have been proven to be clinically useful in ICUs, and specifically in LMICs. Therefore, we developed an AI solution that assists LUS practitioners and assessed its usefulness in  a low resource ICU.

Methods

This was a three-phase prospective study. In the first phase, the performance of four different clinical user groups in interpreting LUS clips was assessed. In the second phase, the performance of 57 non-e

SUBMITTER: Nhat PTH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10314555 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature