Publications by authors named "William R Schulz"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the cost-effectiveness of two treatment options for first-time anterior shoulder instability (ASI): nonoperative management versus early surgical stabilization (arthroscopic Bankart repair or ABR).
- A Markov model was used to simulate the outcomes and costs for 1,000 patients, showing that while nonoperative management costs about $38,649 over 10 years, it provided fewer quality-adjusted life years (7.67 QALYs) compared to ABR, which cost $43,052 and provided 8.44 QALYs.
- The analysis found that ABR is generally the better option, being the optimal strategy in 98.7% of simulations, with a cost
Background: Revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) requires preoperatively identifying in situ implants, a time-consuming and sometimes unachievable task. Although deep learning (DL) tools have been attempted to automate this process, existing approaches are limited by classifying few femoral and zero acetabular components, only classify on anterior-posterior (AP) radiographs, and do not report prediction uncertainty or flag outlier data.
Methods: This study introduces Total Hip Arhtroplasty Automated Implant Detector (THA-AID), a DL tool trained on 241,419 radiographs that identifies common designs of 20 femoral and 8 acetabular components from AP, lateral, or oblique views and reports prediction uncertainty using conformal prediction and outlier detection using a custom framework.