Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence in Orthopedic Surgery and Sport Medicine"

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2023 | Viewed by 653

Special Issue Editors

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128 Rome, Italy
Interests: sports traumatology; arthroscopic surgery of shoulder, knee, and ankle; replacement surgery of shoulder, knee, and hip
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Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 98164 Messina, Italy
Interests: monitoring of muscle fatigue; neurodegenerative diseases; movement in patients with arthroplasty
Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 98164 Messina, Italy
Interests: prefrontal cortex; cognitive neuroscience; brain mapping; neurology; cognitive science; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in orthopedic surgery and sport medicine. Although the interest in the AI algorithm for classification and diagnosis is growing, we still suffer from a lack of applications for clinicians to understand and trust the output of AI models, especially when involved in decision processes. Moreover, very little discussion has revolved around how to apply these tools for the early prediction of surgical treatments and care of patients suffering from musculoskeletal diseases.

Prof. Dr. Umile Giuseppe Longo
Dr. Gennaro Tartarisco
Dr. Antonio Cerasa
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • orthopedic imaging
  • decision support system

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Predicting CTS Diagnosis and Prognosis Based on Machine Learning Techniques
Diagnostics 2023, 13(3), 492; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13030492 - 29 Jan 2023
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a clinical disease that occurs due to compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. The determination of the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome is essential to provide appropriate therapeutic interventions. Machine learning (ML)-based modeling can be [...] Read more.
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a clinical disease that occurs due to compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. The determination of the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome is essential to provide appropriate therapeutic interventions. Machine learning (ML)-based modeling can be used to classify diseases, make decisions, and create new therapeutic interventions. It is also used in medical research to implement predictive models. However, despite the growth in medical research based on ML and Deep Learning (DL), CTS research is still relatively scarce. While a few studies have developed models to predict diagnosis of CTS, no ML model has been presented to classify the severity of CTS based on comprehensive clinical data. Therefore, this study developed new classification models for determining CTS severity using ML algorithms. This study included 80 patients with other diseases that have an overlap in symptoms with CTS, such as cervical radiculopathysasas, de quervian tendinopathy, and peripheral neuropathy, and 80 CTS patients who underwent ultrasonography (US)-guided median nerve hydrodissection. CTS severity was classified into mild, moderate, and severe grades. In our study, we aggregated the data from CTS patients and patients with other diseases that have an overlap in symptoms with CTS, such as cervical radiculopathysasas, de quervian tendinopathy, and peripheral neuropathy. The dataset was randomly split into training and test data, at 70% and 30%, respectively. The proposed model achieved promising results of 0.955%, 0.963%, and 0.919% in terms of classification accuracy, precision, and recall, respectively. In addition, we developed a machine learning model that predicts the probability of a patient improving after the hydro-dissection injection process based on the aggregated data after three different months (one, three, and six). The proposed model achieved accuracy after six months of 0.912%, after three months of 0.901%, and after one month 0.877%. The overall performance for predicting the prognosis after six months outperforms the prediction after one and three months. We utilized statistics tests (significance test, Spearman’s correlation test, and two-way ANOVA test) to determine the effect of injection process in CTS treatment. Our data-driven decision support tools can be used to help determine which patients to operate on in order to avoid the associated risks and expenses of surgery. Full article
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