Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Assessment of Normal Mediastinal and Abdominal Organ/Anatomic Strictures Using a Novel Developed Artificial Intelligence Model

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a high-skilled procedure with a limited number of facilities available for training. Therefore, a high number of procedures is necessary to achieve competency. However, the agreement between observers varies widely. Artificial intelligence (AI) aided recognition and characterization of anatomical structures may improve the training process while improving the agreement between observers. However, developed EUS-AI models have been explicitly trained or only with disease samples or for detecting abdominal anatomical features.

In other fields as Radiation Oncology, developed AI models have been widely used. They must recognize in unison healthy and disease strictures throughout any part of the human body during the contouring. It avoids unnecessary irradiation of normal tissue. EUS-AI models not trained with healthy samples can cause an increase in false-positive cases during real-life practice. It implies potential overdiagnosis of abnormal/disease strictures. EUS-AI models not trained with samples outside

Using an automated machine learning software, Robles-Medranda et al. have previously developed a convolutional neuronal networks (CNN) AI model that recognizes the anatomical structures during linear and radial EUS evaluations (AI Works, MD Consulting group, Ecuador). To the best of our knowledge, this EUS-AI model is the first trained with EUS videos from patients without pathologies and, thus, with normal mediastinal and abdominal organ/anatomic strictures. In this second stage, we pursue to design an external validation of our developed AI model, considering an endoscopist expert as the gold standard.