Artificial intelligence for image interpretation in ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia

J Bowness^{1

2}, K El-Boghdadly^{3

4}, D Burckett-St Laurent⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ King's College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.

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J Bowness et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 May.

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. 2021 May;76(5):602-607.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15212. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

J Bowness^{1

2}, K El-Boghdadly^{3

4}, D Burckett-St Laurent⁵

¹ Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ King's College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.

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Keywords: anatomy; artificial intelligence; blocks; machine learning; regional anaesthesia; ultrasound.

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