Artificial intelligence (AI) for paediatric fracture detection: a multireader multicase (MRMC) study protocol.

Journal: BMJ open
PMID: 39645256

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Paediatric fractures are common but can be easily missed on radiography leading to potentially serious implications including long-term pain, disability and missed opportunities for safeguarding in cases of inflicted injury. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist fracture detection in adult patients exist, although their efficacy in children is less well known. This study aims to evaluate whether a commercially available AI tool (certified for paediatric use) improves healthcare professionals (HCPs) detection of fractures, and how this may impact patient care in a retrospective simulated study design.

Authors

  • Susan C Shelmerdine
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
  • Cato Pauling
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
  • Emma Allan
    Department of Clinical Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1H 3JH, UK.
  • Dean Langan
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
  • Emily Ashworth
    St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting London, London, UK.
  • Ka-Wai Yung
    Wellcome/ EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, Charles Bell House, 43-45 Foley Street, London, W1W 7TY, UK.
  • Joy Barber
    Clinical Radiology, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
  • Saira Haque
    Clinical Radiology, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • David Rosewarne
    Clinical Radiology, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK.
  • Nick Woznitza
    Radiology Dept, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK.
  • Sarim Ather
    Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Alex Novak
    Emergency Medicine Research Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom, Oxford.
  • Kanthan Theivendran
    Orthopaedic Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK.
  • Owen J Arthurs
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.

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