Better than the middle grade: AI detection of cervical cord compression on MRI

Degenerative cervical myelopathy is the most common cause of non-traumatic spinal cord injury in adults and one of the most consequential diagnoses to miss. The pathology is progressive, the window for intervention matters, and the early signs on MRI — subtle cord signal change, mild compression at a single level — are exactly the kind … Read more

When an algorithm can’t wait: ML and the necrotizing fasciitis problem

A patient presents to the emergency department with a spreading soft tissue infection and fever. The orthopaedic team is asked to review. Inflammatory markers are elevated, the limb is swollen and tender, and the clinical picture is consistent with serious deep infection — but the critical question is not yet answered: is this necrotizing fasciitis, … Read more

The 3am fracture: what AI can and can’t do on-call

The ED doctor is confident. The AI has cleared the radiograph. The patient has a tender anatomical snuffbox and a mechanism consistent with a scaphoid injury. The question you are answering — at 3am, on the phone — is whether you trust the algorithm. This is not a hypothetical. AI-based fracture detection tools are deployed … Read more