A practical guide to the implementation of AI in orthopaedic research – part 1: opportunities in clinical application and overcoming existing challenges
Reviewartikel, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform medical research by improving disease diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and outcome prediction. Despite the rapid adoption of AI and machine learning (ML) in other domains and industry, deployment in medical research and clinical practice poses several challenges due to the inherent characteristics and barriers of the healthcare sector. Therefore, researchers aiming to perform AI-intensive studies require a fundamental understanding of the key concepts, biases, and clinical safety concerns associated with the use of AI. Through the analysis of large, multimodal datasets, AI has the potential to revolutionize orthopaedic research, with new insights regarding the optimal diagnosis and management of patients affected musculoskeletal injury and disease. The article is the first in a series introducing fundamental concepts and best practices to guide healthcare professionals and researcher interested in performing AI-intensive orthopaedic research studies. The vast potential of AI in orthopaedics is illustrated through examples involving disease- or injury-specific outcome prediction, medical image analysis, clinical decision support systems and digital twin technology. Furthermore, it is essential to address the role of human involvement in training unbiased, generalizable AI models, their explainability in high-risk clinical settings and the implementation of expert oversight and clinical safety measures for failure. In conclusion, the opportunities and challenges of AI in medicine are presented to ensure the safe and ethical deployment of AI models for orthopaedic research and clinical application. Level of evidence IV

Artificial intelligence

Orthopaedics

Machine learning

Provenance

Explainability

Research methods

Large language models

Digital twins

AI

Generalizability

Decision support systems

Ethics

Learning series

ML

Författare

Bálint Zsidai

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Göteborgs universitet

Ann Sophie Hilkert

Medfield Diagnostics

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Janina Kaarre

Göteborgs universitet

University of Pittsburgh

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Eric Narup

Göteborgs universitet

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Eric Hamrin Senorski

Sportrehab

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Göteborgs universitet

Alberto Grassi

IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna

Göteborgs universitet

Christophe Ley

Université du Luxembourg

Umile Giuseppe Longo

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Elmar Herbst

Division of General Internal Medicine

Michael T. Hirschmann

Head Knee Surgery and DKF Head of Research

Sebastian Kopf

Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane

Romain Seil

Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg

Thomas Tischer

Clinic for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery

Kristian Samuelsson

Göteborgs universitet

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Robert Feldt

Göteborgs universitet

Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

2197-1153 (eISSN)

Vol. 10 1 117

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Kirurgi

DOI

10.1186/s40634-023-00683-z

PubMed

37968370

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2025-10-17