AI algorithm of knee x-rays aids placement of markers

The model is based on an off-the-shelf deep learning network and could be used to help prevent manual placement mistakes or missing side markers, which have profound effects on patient safety, the authors wrote.

“Because a wrong ASM can have severe consequences and deep-learning networks are in general black boxes, the prediction of the network could be presented to the radiographer for a second check, making mistakes even less probable,” wrote lead author Anton Quinsten, chief radiology technologist at University Hospital Essen.

Left and right anatomical sides are difficult to…