IIT Guwahati develops AI mannequin to foretell bone restore outcomes after surgical procedure

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Researchers on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) mannequin to foretell the therapeutic of thigh bone fractures after surgical procedure.

According to the workforce, the mannequin can be utilized to evaluate the therapeutic outcomes of various fracture fixation methods in order that an optimum technique might be chosen for the affected person relying on their private physiologies and fracture kind.

Using such precision fashions can scale back the therapeutic time, and lighten the financial burden and ache for sufferers who want thigh fracture therapy, they mentioned.

The outcomes of the analysis have just lately been revealed in open-source journal, “PLoS One”.

“AI has tremendous potential when it comes to understanding and predicting complex biological phenomena and hence, can play a big role in health sciences applications,” mentioned Souptick Chanda, Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati.

The analysis workforce has used a mixture of Finite Element Analysis and the AI software “Fuzzy Logic” to know the therapeutic strategy of fracture after varied therapy strategies.

Various bone progress parameters had been used together with a rule-based simulation scheme for this objective.

The examine additional examined the affect of various screw fixation mechanisms to match the fracture therapeutic efficacies of every course of.

The predictions of therapeutic made by the mannequin agreed effectively with experimental observations, pointing to its reliability.

“Our simulation model can potentially help a surgeon choose the right implant or technique before a fracture treatment surgery. In addition to various biological and patient-specific parameters, the model can also account for different clinical phenomena, such as smoking, diabetes, etc. The model can also be adapted for veterinary fractures which are, physiologically and in various aspects, similar to those occurring in humans,” Chanda added.

The researchers plan to develop a software program or app primarily based on the algorithm that can be utilized in hospitals and different healthcare establishments as a part of their fracture therapy protocols.

The workforce is presently collaborating with Dr Bhaskar Borgohain and his workforce of orthopaedists from the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences Hospital, Shillong, for animal research to validate and fine-tune sure parameters.

“The research is useful because incidences of thigh bone and hip fractures have increased significantly due to the increasing geriatric population in the world. An estimated 2 lakh hip fractures occur every year in India alone, most of which require hospitalisation and trauma care. Treatment for hip fractures traditionally includes bone plates and rods to bridge the fracture site and promote bone healing,” mentioned Pratik Nag, analysis scholar at IIT Guwahati.

“Fracture treatment methods are intuitively chosen by surgeons based on their experience, and there is no way of predicting the efficacy and success of the treatment method chosen. Our research will help increase the accuracy rate in decision-making in orthopaedics, thereby reducing the cost and disease burden associated with fracture recovery,” he added.

NEW DELHI: Researchers on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) mannequin to foretell the therapeutic of thigh bone fractures after surgical procedure.

According to the workforce, the mannequin can be utilized to evaluate the therapeutic outcomes of various fracture fixation methods in order that an optimum technique might be chosen for the affected person relying on their private physiologies and fracture kind.

Using such precision fashions can scale back the therapeutic time, and lighten the financial burden and ache for sufferers who want thigh fracture therapy, they mentioned.

The outcomes of the analysis have just lately been revealed in open-source journal, “PLoS One”.

“AI has tremendous potential when it comes to understanding and predicting complex biological phenomena and hence, can play a big role in health sciences applications,” mentioned Souptick Chanda, Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati.

The analysis workforce has used a mixture of Finite Element Analysis and the AI software “Fuzzy Logic” to know the therapeutic strategy of fracture after varied therapy strategies.

Various bone progress parameters had been used together with a rule-based simulation scheme for this objective.

The examine additional examined the affect of various screw fixation mechanisms to match the fracture therapeutic efficacies of every course of.

The predictions of therapeutic made by the mannequin agreed effectively with experimental observations, pointing to its reliability.

“Our simulation model can potentially help a surgeon choose the right implant or technique before a fracture treatment surgery. In addition to various biological and patient-specific parameters, the model can also account for different clinical phenomena, such as smoking, diabetes, etc. The model can also be adapted for veterinary fractures which are, physiologically and in various aspects, similar to those occurring in humans,” Chanda added.

The researchers plan to develop a software program or app primarily based on the algorithm that can be utilized in hospitals and different healthcare establishments as a part of their fracture therapy protocols.

The workforce is presently collaborating with Dr Bhaskar Borgohain and his workforce of orthopaedists from the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences Hospital, Shillong, for animal research to validate and fine-tune sure parameters.

“The research is useful because incidences of thigh bone and hip fractures have increased significantly due to the increasing geriatric population in the world. An estimated 2 lakh hip fractures occur every year in India alone, most of which require hospitalisation and trauma care. Treatment for hip fractures traditionally includes bone plates and rods to bridge the fracture site and promote bone healing,” mentioned Pratik Nag, analysis scholar at IIT Guwahati.

“Fracture treatment methods are intuitively chosen by surgeons based on their experience, and there is no way of predicting the efficacy and success of the treatment method chosen. Our research will help increase the accuracy rate in decision-making in orthopaedics, thereby reducing the cost and disease burden associated with fracture recovery,” he added.