{"id":1560037,"date":"2022-07-18T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560037"},"modified":"2022-07-18T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T23:34:18","slug":"canada-based-researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-tool-for-detecting-rare-birth-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-based-researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-tool-for-detecting-rare-birth-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada-Based Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tool For Detecting Rare Birth Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-based-researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-tool-for-detecting-rare-birth-defects%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Canadian researchers recently <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0269323\">developed<\/a> a deep-learning algorithm using Artificial Intelligence-based tools to identify and diagnose potentially fatal cysts on a baby during the first trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers out of the Ottawa Hospital have demonstrated such models can detect benign tumors that form a fluid-filled sac-like structure in the baby\u2019s head and neck area known as cystic hygroma. The tumor blocks the lymphatic system, which causes fluid to build up underneath the skin that could result in a stillbirth or miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new proof-of-concept study introduced a novel application to automatically identify such tumors and help physicians limit the relevant fetal structures for clinical decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we demonstrated was that in the field of ultrasound,\u201d Dr. Mark Walker at the University\u2019s Faculty of Medicine said according to <a href=\"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/deep-learning-ai-now-being-used-to-help-diagnose-birth-defects\/\">Insider Paper<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re able to use the same tools for image classification and identification with a high sensitivity and specificity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker said the ground-breaking experiment could apply to many other foetal anomalies identified by ultrasonography after further development, including large multi-site dataset testing and outside review.<\/p>\n<p>Cystic hygroma affects approximately one in 800 pregnancies and one in 8,000 live births and is commonly associated with other chromosomal abnormalities such as Trisomy 21, Turner Syndrome, and anatomical malformations.<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant women impacted by the condition would undergo extensive pre-and-post pregnancy management, like testing for an abnormal number of chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials report investigating cystic hygroma is ideal for studying its feasibility by using deep-learning models to interpret ultrasound images.<\/p>\n<p>Using a DenseNet model, researchers compared cases of the condition with over 300 ultrasound images from The Ottawa Hospital. The results indicated a 93 percent accuracy showing that deep-learning algorithms could detect cystic hygroma in the first trimester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe model was outstanding, even with a small number of training images,\u201d Dr. Walker said according to <a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/ai-fetal-development-21053\/\">Neuroscience News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walker and a team of researchers plan to create a worldwide association that would upload such images to a cloud that could assist doctors \u2014 specifically in low-and-middle income nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis particular project is really meant to be the beginning of a large body of work,\u201d says Dr. Walker. \u201cWe\u2019ve got several papers to follow this one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian researchers recently developed a deep-learning algorithm using Artificial Intelligence-based tools to identify and diagnose potentially fatal cysts on a baby during the first trimester of pregnancy. Researchers out of the Ottawa Hospital have demonstrated such models can detect benign tumors that form a fluid-filled sac-like structure in the baby\u2019s head and neck area known &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}