A group led by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University tested a model developed by Fosun Aitrox for assessing the severity of primary hip osteoarthritis and femoral head osteonecrosis. The AI model performed better than specialists and could provide a second opinion in these cases, the authors suggested.

“This is the first study to investigate AI-assisted detection of two types of hip diseases on digital radiography, which is much more challenging and a step closer to routine clinical scenarios,” wrote first author Chen Chen, PhD.

Hip osteoarthritis is the most prevalent and…