GUWAHATI: An artificial intelligence (AI) based model has been created by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) to assist surgeons in selecting the best methods for treating broken bones.
In order to choose the optimal course of action, the model created by Souptick Chanda, assistant professor in the department of biosciences and bioengineering at IIT-G, and his team can also be used to evaluate the healing outcomes of various fracture fixations.
According to the researchers, this would facilitate patients' quick recoveries and lessen the suffering they frequently experience as a result of surgical errors made by their surgeons.
Chanda said on Thursday that using such precise models might speed up recovery, ease the financial strain on patients, and lessen agony for those who needed treatment for thigh fractures.
Chanda and his research assistant Pratik Nag recently co-authored a paper in the open-source journal PLOS One that contained the findings of this study.
Al can play a significant role in applications in the health sciences because of its enormous ability to comprehend and anticipate complicated biological occurrences, according to Chanda.
In order to help hospitals and other healthcare facilities with their fracture treatment regimens, the researchers intend to create software or an application based on algorithms.
"The world's growing senior population has led to a large rise in the frequency of thigh bone and hip fractures. In India alone, there are thought to be two lakh hip fractures each year, the most of which necessitate hospitalization and trauma care "explained a representative of IIT-G.
"In order to bridge the fracture site and encourage bone repair, bone plates and rods are typically used in the treatment of hip fractures. There is no way to forecast the effectiveness and success of the treatment approach chosen, and surgeons choose the fracture treatment techniques primarily on their experience rather than on logic," he added.
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