NCT04752891

Assessment of an App Based on Artificial Intelligence for Purulent AOM Diagnosis in a Pediatric Department

Assessment of an App Based on Artificial Intelligence for Purulent Acute Otitis Media (AOM) Diagnosis in a a Pediatric Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 203 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondation Lenval · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Otitis media (OM) is one of the most common childhood infections and is a major cause of morbidity in children and results as being the first cause of antibiotic prescription among children in developed countries . An artificial intelligence-based tool could help physicians refine their diagnosis

Detailed description

Ear infections in children are very common, particularly acute otitis media (AOM) which represents the first reason for visiting physicians and for antibiotic prescription in children in developed countries. However, the diagnosis is not easy because of the narrowness of the ear canal, the discomfort of the child during the otoscopic exam. Moreover, the accuracy of the AOM diagnosis depends on the subjectivity of the physician mostly. This can result in an misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment with, as a result, the emergence of multi-resistant germ. Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is booming and has already proven its worth in terms of prevention, monitoring and diagnosis. I-Nside, an app based on Artificial Intelligence is able to make automatic diagnosis of many ear pathologies, after capturing picture of any eardrum using an otoendoscope fixed on a connected smartphone (SmartScope®). Therefore, the investigators aim to assess the accuracy of AOM diagnosis the existing app, by comparing the inter-rater agreement between the diagnosis made by a senior physician using a traditional otoscope (considered as "gold standard" ) and the one made by a junior physician using the app

Conditions

• Otitis Media, Suppurative

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	AOM diagnosis with app	the diagnosis made by a senior physician using a traditional otoscope. the diagnosis made by the junior physician using an otoendoscope fixed on a connected smartphone
OTHER	AOM diagnosis without app	the diagnosis made by a senior physician and by the junior physician, using a traditional otoscope

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-10
• Primary completion: 2022-08-16
• Completion: 2023-03-16
• First posted: 2021-02-12
• Last updated: 2023-03-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France