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Dror Lederman¹, Micha Y Shamir

¹Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3362 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. dror.lederman@gmail.com

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Anesthesiology

Background:

Endotracheal intubation is a critical procedure for airway management.
Accurate confirmation of endotracheal tube (ETT) placement is essential to prevent complications.
Current confirmation methods can be subjective or time-consuming.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and evaluate a novel system for accurate endotracheal intubation positioning confirmation.
To assess the performance of an image classification algorithm for differentiating tracheal from esophageal intubation.

Main Methods:

A system utilizing a miniature complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor on a stylet was developed.
Video signals were acquired by a digital signal processor (DSP) and processed by an image classification algorithm.
A leave-one-out cross-validation method was used to test the algorithm on 150 images from mannequin intubations.

Main Results:

The system correctly identified 80 out of 80 endotracheal intubations.
The system correctly identified 70 out of 70 esophageal intubations.
The image recognition system demonstrated a 100% success rate in discriminating correct ETT positioning on a mannequin.

Conclusions:

A fully automatic image recognition system successfully confirmed endotracheal tube positioning.
The developed system shows promise for real-time, accurate ETT placement verification.
Further research involving live tissue models and human trials is warranted.