Clinical evaluation of the APAS® Independence: Automated imaging and interpretation of urine cultures using artificial intelligence with composite reference standard discrepant resolution.

Lisa Brenton¹, Mary Jo Waters², Tyman Stanford³, Steven Giglio³

¹St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: Lisa.BRENTON@svha.org.au.

²St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

³LBT Innovations, Adelaide, Australia; Clever Culture Systems, Switzerland.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study reports the outcome of the first evaluation of the APAS® Independence for automated reading and preliminary interpretation of urine cultures in the routine clinical microbiology laboratory. In a 2-stage evaluation involving 3000 urine samples, two objectives were assessed; 1) the sensitivity and specificity of the APAS® Independence compared to microbiologists using colony e…

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