Automating Ultrasound eFAST Triage Using Artificial Intelligent Models

A non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for automating eFAST analysis of ultrasound scans, where the execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform:

• receiving at least one ultrasound image from one or more scan sites;
• processing the at least one ultrasound image to determine whether there is a presence of one or more fluid pockets or free fluid present in the patient, more particularly the injury is selected from pneumothorax, hemothorax, and abdominal hemorrhage,
• outputting a result from the processing, and
• where the model is trained on a plurality of historical ultrasound images over a historical observation period, the historical ultrasound images associated with at least one injury determined directly observed presence of a fluid pocket or free fluid present in those images.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory including one or more sequences of instructions,
• the at least one memory and the one or more sequences of instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
• receiving at least one ultrasound image from one or more scan sites into memory;
• processing the at least one ultrasound image to determine whether there is a presence of one or more fluid pockets or free fluid present in the patient, more particularly the injury is selected from pneumothorax, hemothorax, and abdominal hemorrhage;
• and
• outputting a result from the processing,
• where the model is trained on a plurality of historical ultrasound images over a historical observation period, the historical ultrasound images associated with at least one injury determined directly observed presence of a fluid pocket or free fluid present in those images.