MedPage Today August 2, 2024
Rachael Robertson

— Tool could be useful in resource-limited settings without expensive ultrasound equipment

An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered handheld ultrasonography device operated by novice users estimated gestational age as accurately as credentialed sonographers using ultrasound equipment, a prospective diagnostic accuracy study showed.

In estimating gestational age among 400 pregnant individuals in Lusaka, Zambia, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the AI-enabled device had a mean absolute error of 3.2 days compared with 3.0 days with the study standard of fetal biometry with a high-specification machine, which met criteria for equivalence.

The percentage of assessments within 7 days of the ground truth gestational age — assessed via transvaginal crown-rump length measurement — was also comparable, at 90.7% with the AI tool and 92.5% with...

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