An ultrasound-based artificial intelligence framework for difficult airway prediction: A two-model, three-step decision framework

• Chunmeng Fu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8011-6786

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• Cunyuan Luan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Automation, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Huabo Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huabo Liu, Zejun Niu

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: hbliu@qdu.edu.cn (HL); nzj16niu@sina.com (ZN)

  Affiliations School of Automation, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Qingdao, China

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• Wenfei Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Xia Zhou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Yuanfang Jia,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Bing Ding,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Qingdao Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Qingdao Hiser Hospital Affiliated of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Lei Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Provincial Key Medical and Health Laboratory of Anesthesia and Brain Function, Qingdao, China

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• Li Yuan,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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• Zejun Niu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huabo Liu, Zejun Niu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hbliu@qdu.edu.cn (HL); nzj16niu@sina.com (ZN)

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1717-2442

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