Mayo Clinic researchers created an AI model to analyze patient photos for surgical site infection detection with strong accuracy.
Key Details
- 1AI system developed by Mayo Clinic automates detection of surgical site infections using patient-submitted wound images.
- 2Model was trained on 20,000+ images from more than 6,000 patients across nine hospitals.
- 3Two-stage Vision Transformer model: incision detection (94% accuracy) and infection detection (81% AUC).
- 4Demonstrated performance consistency across diverse patient demographics, addressing bias concerns.
- 5Potential to accelerate infection detection, reducing delays in follow-up care and costs.
- 6Further prospective studies are planned for clinical validation.
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