International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
Mar 13, 2025
IMPORTANCE: The ability to augment routine post-operative tube check appointments with at-home digital otoscopes and deep learning AI could improve health care access as well as reduce financial and time burden on families.
PURPOSE: Tympanostomy tube (TT) placement is the most frequently performed ambulatory surgery in children under 15. After the procedure it is recommended that patients follow up regularly for "tube checks" until TT extrusion. Such visits incur direct...
Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Oct 11, 2023
Prior work has demonstrated improved accuracy in otitis media diagnosis based on otoscopy using artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches compared to clinician evaluation. However, this difference in accuracy has not been shown in a setting resem...
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To create a new strategy for monitoring pediatric otitis media (OM), we developed a brief, reliable, and objective method for automated classification using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with images from otoscope.
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