GUWAHATI: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to predict the healing of thigh bone fractures after surgery. The model developed by Souptick Chanda, Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati, and his team have come up with healing outcomes of different fracture fixation strategies. This will enable doctors to employ an optimum strategy and choose the best possible scenario for the patient depending on their personal physiologies and fracture type. Using such precision models can reduce the healing time, reduce financial burden, and pain for patients who need thigh fracture treatment.
Speaking about the research, Dr Chanda said, “AI has tremendous potential when it comes to understanding and predicting complex biological phenomena and hence, can play a big role in health sciences applications.”
The research team has used a combination of Finite Element Analysis and the AI tool, Fuzzy Logic to understand the healing process of fracture after various treatment methods. Various bone growth parameters were used along with a rule-based simulation scheme for this purpose. The study further examined the influence of different screw fixation mechanisms to compare the fracture healing efficacies of each process. The predictions of healing made by the model agreed well with experimental observations, pointing to its reliability.
