Boston Children's Hospital: Boston Children's Hospital deployed VirtualHip, a fully automated AI tool integrated across its Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program clinic, which converts routine 2D medical images into detailed 3D hip models and provides clinicians with diagnostic and treatment guidance within about one hour. It is described as the first fully automated AI tool of its kind deployed across a US hip clinic. | AI Trace
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Boston Children's Hospital deployed VirtualHip, a fully automated AI tool integrated across its Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program clinic, which converts routine 2D medical images into detailed 3D hip models and provides clinicians with diagnostic and treatment guidance within about one hour. It is described as the first fully automated AI tool of its kind deployed across a US hip clinic.
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VirtualHip uses natural language processing models and computer vision algorithms trained on tens of millions of clinical notes and imaging data from patients seen at Boston Children's over two decades. Clinicians access a web-based portal to submit analysis requests and receive 3D models with a margin of error under one millimeter. The tool assesses morphological abnormalities and movement-related issues such as femoroacetabular impingement and hip dysplasia. It was built using the NVIDIA DGX platform. As of November 2024, researchers were working toward a patient-facing version using large language models and planned to commercialize the tool for use at other hospitals.
