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How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room?
The growing need for emergency imaging has greatly increased the number of conventional X-rays, particularly for traumatic injury. Deep learning (DL) algorithms could improve fracture screening by radiologists and emergency room (ER) physicians. We used an algorithm developed for the detection of ap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321374/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7070105 |
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author | Reichert, Guillaume Bellamine, Ali Fontaine, Matthieu Naipeanu, Beatrice Altar, Adrien Mejean, Elodie Javaud, Nicolas Siauve, Nathalie |
author_facet | Reichert, Guillaume Bellamine, Ali Fontaine, Matthieu Naipeanu, Beatrice Altar, Adrien Mejean, Elodie Javaud, Nicolas Siauve, Nathalie |
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description | The growing need for emergency imaging has greatly increased the number of conventional X-rays, particularly for traumatic injury. Deep learning (DL) algorithms could improve fracture screening by radiologists and emergency room (ER) physicians. We used an algorithm developed for the detection of appendicular skeleton fractures and evaluated its performance for detecting traumatic fractures on conventional X-rays in the ER, without the need for training on local data. This algorithm was tested on all patients (N = 125) consulting at the Louis Mourier ER in May 2019 for limb trauma. Patients were selected by two emergency physicians from the clinical database used in the ER. Their X-rays were exported and analyzed by a radiologist. The prediction made by the algorithm and the annotation made by the radiologist were compared. For the 125 patients included, 25 patients with a fracture were identified by the clinicians, 24 of whom were identified by the algorithm (sensitivity of 96%). The algorithm incorrectly predicted a fracture in 14 of the 100 patients without fractures (specificity of 86%). The negative predictive value was 98.85%. This study shows that DL algorithms are potentially valuable diagnostic tools for detecting fractures in the ER and could be used in the training of junior radiologists. |
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spelling | pubmed-83213742021-08-26 How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? Reichert, Guillaume Bellamine, Ali Fontaine, Matthieu Naipeanu, Beatrice Altar, Adrien Mejean, Elodie Javaud, Nicolas Siauve, Nathalie J Imaging Article The growing need for emergency imaging has greatly increased the number of conventional X-rays, particularly for traumatic injury. Deep learning (DL) algorithms could improve fracture screening by radiologists and emergency room (ER) physicians. We used an algorithm developed for the detection of appendicular skeleton fractures and evaluated its performance for detecting traumatic fractures on conventional X-rays in the ER, without the need for training on local data. This algorithm was tested on all patients (N = 125) consulting at the Louis Mourier ER in May 2019 for limb trauma. Patients were selected by two emergency physicians from the clinical database used in the ER. Their X-rays were exported and analyzed by a radiologist. The prediction made by the algorithm and the annotation made by the radiologist were compared. For the 125 patients included, 25 patients with a fracture were identified by the clinicians, 24 of whom were identified by the algorithm (sensitivity of 96%). The algorithm incorrectly predicted a fracture in 14 of the 100 patients without fractures (specificity of 86%). The negative predictive value was 98.85%. This study shows that DL algorithms are potentially valuable diagnostic tools for detecting fractures in the ER and could be used in the training of junior radiologists. MDPI 2021-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8321374/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7070105 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Reichert, Guillaume Bellamine, Ali Fontaine, Matthieu Naipeanu, Beatrice Altar, Adrien Mejean, Elodie Javaud, Nicolas Siauve, Nathalie How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title | How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title_full | How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title_fullStr | How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title_full_unstemmed | How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title_short | How Can a Deep Learning Algorithm Improve Fracture Detection on X-rays in the Emergency Room? |
title_sort | how can a deep learning algorithm improve fracture detection on x-rays in the emergency room? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321374/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7070105 |
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