Application of Machine Learning to Ultrasonography in Identifying Anatomical Landmarks for Cricothyroidotomy Among Female Adults: A Multi-center Prospective Observational Study.

We aimed to develop machine learning (ML)-based algorithms to assist physicians in ultrasound-guided localization of cricoid cartilage (CC) and thyroid cartilage (TC) in cricothyroidotomy. Adult female volunteers were prospectively recruited from two hospitals between September and December, 2020. U...

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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 363 - 374
Main Authors: Wang, Chih-Hung, Li, Jia-Da, Wu, Cheng-Yi, Wu, Yu-Chen, Tay, Joyce, Wu, Meng-Che, Hsu, Ching-Hang, Liu, Yi-Kuan, Chen, Chu-Song, Huang, Chien-Hua
Format: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2024
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          Wang, Chih-Hung
          Li, Jia-Da
          Wu, Cheng-Yi
          Wu, Yu-Chen
          Tay, Joyce
          Wu, Meng-Che
          Hsu, Ching-Hang
          Liu, Yi-Kuan
          Chen, Chu-Song
          Huang, Chien-Hua
        affil: https://ror.org/03nteze27 Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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          Machine Learning Methods
          Ultrasonography Methods
          Cricothyrotomy In Adulthood
          Women's Health
          Human
          Female
          Adult
          Multicenter Studies
          Prospective Studies
          Nonexperimental Studies
          Cricoid Cartilage Ultrasonography
          Thyroid Cartilage Ultrasonography
          Neural Networks (Computer)
          Volunteer Workers
          Algorithms
          Deep Learning Methods
          Hospitals
          Health Personnel Psychosocial Factors
          Descriptive Statistics
          ROC Curve
          Confidence Intervals
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
      ab: We aimed to develop machine learning (ML)-based algorithms to assist physicians in ultrasound-guided localization of cricoid cartilage (CC) and thyroid cartilage (TC) in cricothyroidotomy. Adult female volunteers were prospectively recruited from two hospitals between September and December, 2020. Ultrasonographic images were collected via a modified longitudinal technique. You Only Look Once (YOLOv5s), Faster Regions with Convolutional Neural Network features (Faster R-CNN), and Single Shot Detector (SSD) were selected as the model architectures. A total of 488 women (mean age: 36.0 years) participated in the study, contributing to a total of 292,053 frames of ultrasonographic images. The derived ML-based algorithms demonstrated excellent discriminative performance for the presence of CC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]: YOLOv5s, 0.989, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.982–0.994; Faster R-CNN, 0.986, 95% CI: 0.980–0.991; SSD, 0.968, 95% CI: 0.956–0.977) and TC (AUC: YOLOv5s, 0.989, 95% CI: 0.977–0.997; Faster R-CNN, 0.981, 95% CI: 0.965–0.991; SSD, 0.982, 95% CI: 0.973–0.990). Furthermore, in the frames where the model could correctly indicate the presence of CC or TC, it also accurately localized CC (intersection-over-union: YOLOv5s, 0.753, 95% CI: 0.739–0.765; Faster R-CNN, 0.720, 95% CI: 0.709–0.732; SSD, 0.739, 95% CI: 0.726–0.751) or TC (intersection-over-union: YOLOv5s, 0.739, 95% CI: 0.722–0.755; Faster R-CNN, 0.709, 95% CI: 0.687–0.730; SSD, 0.713, 95% CI: 0.695–0.730). The ML-based algorithms could identify anatomical landmarks for cricothyroidotomy in adult females with favorable discriminative and localization performance. Further studies are warranted to transfer this algorithm to hand-held portable ultrasound devices for clinical use.
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