A Review on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Spinal Diseases.

A Review on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Spinal Diseases. Asian Spine J. 2020 Apr 24;: Authors: Azimi P, Yazdanian T, Benzel EC, Aghaei HN, Azhari S, Sadeghi S, Montazeri A Abstract Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used in a wide variety of real-world applications and it emerges as a promising field across various branches of medicine. This review aims to identify the role of ANNs in spinal diseases. Literature were searched from electronic databases of Scopus and Medline from 1993 to 2020 with English publications reported on the application of ANNs in spinal diseases. The search strategy was set as the combinations of the following keywords: "artificial neural networks," "spine," "back pain," "prognosis," "grading," "classification," "prediction," "segmentation," "biomechanics," "deep learning," and "imaging." The main findings of the included studies were summarized, with an emphasis on the recent advances in spinal diseases and its application in the diagnostic and prognostic procedures. According to the search strategy, a set of 3,653 articles were retrieved from Medline and Scopus databases. After careful evaluation of the abstracts, the full texts of 89 eligible papers were further examined, of which 79 articles satisfied the inclusion criteria of this review. Our review indicates several applications of ANNs in the management of spinal diseases including (1) diagnosis and assessment of spinal disease progr...
Source: Asian Spine Journal - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research