Applying Artificial Intelligence in the Bronchoscopy Suite - Pulmonology Advisor

A proof-of-concept study suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) may classify images captured during rapid onsite examination of endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial need aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) with high accuracy. The results of this study were published in the European Respiratory Journal. The use of AI in medicine has become more common in areas such as cervical cancer screening, which has led experts to question its potential in other fields of medicine. No data have been published on the application of AI during rapid on-site examination of EBUS-TBNA. A team of investigators "evaluated the performance of an AI model, consisting of an open-sounded convolutional neural network using transfer learning, for its ability to accurately classify images of [rapid onsite examination] of EBUS-TBNA smears in the bronchoscopy suite."