Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Project Aims to Improve Ear Disease Diagnoses With Objective Machine Learning Techniques
May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 23 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:
Though middle ear effusions and acute otitis media are the most commonly treated childhood ear diseases, costing more than $3.2 billion annually, diagnosis methods are subjective.
The current standard of care to evaluate the eardrum is a handheld otoscope that has a small field of view and relatively poor lighting. As a result, ear exam findings can be very subtle, m . . .
Though middle ear effusions and acute otitis media are the most commonly treated childhood ear diseases, costing more than $3.2 billion annually, diagnosis methods are subjective.
The current standard of care to evaluate the eardrum is a handheld otoscope that has a small field of view and relatively poor lighting. As a result, ear exam findings can be very subtle, m . . .