Deep Learning on Ultrasound Images Visualizes the Femoral Nerve with Good Precision

The number of hip fractures per year worldwide is estimated to reach 6 million by the year 2050. Despite the many advantages of regional blockades when managing pain from such a fracture, these are used to a lesser extent than general analgesia. One reason is that the opportunities for training and obtaining clinical experience in applying nerve blocks can be a challenge in many clinical settings. Ultrasound image guidance based on artificial intelligence may be one way to increase nerve block success rate. We propose an approach using a deep learning semantic segmentation model with U-net architecture to identify the femoral nerve in ultrasound images. The dataset consisted of 1410 ultrasound images that were collected from 48 patients. The images were manually annotated by a clinical professional and a segmentation model was trained. After training the model for 350 epochs, the results were validated with a 10-fold cross-validation. This showed a mean Intersection over Union of 74%, with an interquartile range of 0.66-0.81.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

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Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) - 11(2023), 2 vom: 07. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Berggreen, Johan [VerfasserIn]
Johansson, Anders [VerfasserIn]
Jahr, John [VerfasserIn]
Möller, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Jansson, Tomas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Artificial intelligence
Deep learning
Hip fracture
Journal Article
Nerve blocks
Ultrasound

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Date Revised 23.01.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/healthcare11020184

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351842721