Antonio Malvasi, Lorenzo E Malgieri, Ettore Cicinelli, Antonella Vimercati, Antonio D'Amato, Miriam Dellino, Giuseppe Trojano, Tommaso Difonzo, Renata Beck, Andrea Tinelli
The position of the fetal head during engagement and progression in the birth canal is the primary cause of dystocic labor and arrest of progression, often due to malposition and malrotation. The authors performed an investigation on pregnant women in labor, who all underwent vaginal digital examination by obstetricians and midwives as well as intrapartum ultrasonography to collect four "geometric parameters", measured in all the women. All parameters were measured using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, called AIDA (artificial intelligence dystocia algorithm), which incorporates a human-in-the-loop approach, that is, to use AI (artificial intelligence) algorithms that prioritize the physician's decision and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)...
April 29, 2024: Journal of Imaging