ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2020
Using Deep Learning Algorithms to Grade Hydronephrosis Severity: Toward a Clinical Adjunct.
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- Applications of artificial intelligence in early childhood health management: a systematic review from fetal to pediatric periods.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Artificial intelligence in pediatric nephrology: current applications and emerging frameworks for evidence generation.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Review
- Transforming Pediatric Urology With Artificial Intelligence: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence and Practice.Cureus · 2026Review
- Comparison of neural networks for classification of urinary tract dilation from renal ultrasounds: evaluation of agreement with expert categorization.Pediatric radiology · 2025Article
- The Hydronephrosis Severity Index guides paediatric antenatal hydronephrosis management based on artificial intelligence applied to ultrasound images alone.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Artificial Intelligence Tools in Pediatric Urology: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Advances.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Renal Analysis: Automated Detection of Hydronephrosis and Precise Kidney Segmentation.European urology open science · 2024Article
- Stratifying Antenatal Hydronephrosis: Predicting High-Grade VUR Using Ultrasound and Scintigraphy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Antenatally detected urinary tract dilatation: a pediatric nephrologist's point of view.Childhood kidney diseases · 2024Review
- Pilot study of machine learning in the task of distinguishing high and low-grade pediatric hydronephrosis on ultrasound.Investigative and clinical urology · 2023Article
- Kidney Cancer Diagnosis and Surgery Selection by Machine Learning from CT Scans Combined with Clinical Metadata.Cancers · 2023Article
- Artificial intelligence-aided ultrasound in renal diseases: a systematic review.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Review
- Data harnessing to nurture the human mind for a tailored approach to the child.Pediatric research · 2023Review
- Deep learning techniques for imaging diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma: current and emerging trends.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- A narrative review on the application of artificial intelligence in renal ultrasound.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- A two-stage renal disease classification based on transfer learning with hyperparameters optimization.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Automatic Screening of Pediatric Renal Ultrasound Abnormalities: Deep Learning and Transfer Learning Approach.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
- Deep-learning segmentation of ultrasound images for automated calculation of the hydronephrosis area to renal parenchyma ratio.Investigative and clinical urology · 2022Article
- Artificial Intelligence Applications in Urology: Reporting Standards to Achieve Fluency for Urologists.The Urologic clinics of North America · 2022Review
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning in pediatrics and neonatology healthcare.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Grading hydronephrosis severity relies on subjective interpretation of renal ultrasound images. Deep learning is a data-driven algorithmic approach to classifying data, including images, presenting a promising option for grading hydronephrosis. The current study explored the potential of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), a type of deep learning algorithm, to grade hydronephrosis ultrasound images according to the 5-point Society for Fetal Urology (SFU) classification system, and discusses its potential applications in developing decision and teaching aids for clinical practice. We developed a five-layer CNN to grade 2,420 sagittal hydronephrosis ultrasound images [191 SFU 0 (8%), 407 SFU I (17%), 666 SFU II (28%), 833 SFU III (34%), and 323 SFU IV (13%)], from 673 patients ranging from 0 to 116.29 months old (
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