Automating Scoliosis Measurements in Radiographic Studies with Machine Learning:

Comparing Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Reports

 

Audrey Y. Ha1, Bao H. Do1, Adam L. Bartret1, Charles X. Fang1, Albert Hsiao2, Amelie M. Lutz1, Imon Banerjee3, Geoffrey M. Riley1,

Daniel L. Rubin1, Kathryn J. Stevens1, Erin Wang1, Shannon Wang1, Christopher F. Beaulieu1, Brian Hurt2

 

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"Each year, >400,000 office, 130,000 hospital, and 17,000 emergency room visits are made by children with scoliosis.

29,000 surgeries are performed yearly in adolescents, with an avg hospital stay cost of $92,000.

Scoliosis patients are up to 40% more likely to have suicidal thoughts."

-ACR Data Science Institute.

 

Try it: Download this random image from the web or use these images from

Stanford (that we know work :) on our AI web app (choose “scoliosis AI”)

 

 

1 Department of Radiology, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, USA 94305

2 Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA, USA 92037

3 Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 5779 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054