Machine Learning and 3D Image-Based Modeling for Real-Time Body Weight and Body Composition Estimation During Emergency Medical Care. Study 1

This study is a single-centre observational study to train, internally validate, and test an AI-driven 3D camera weight estimation system. Our hypothesis is that this system, when used in the management of acutely ill patients, will be able to estimate total body weight, ideal body weight, and lean body weight more accurately than other current point-of-care system. Healthy volunteers will be used to train and test the system. During a single data collection session of approximately 30 minutes, baseline anthropometric data, a DXA scan, and 3D camera images of volunteers lying on a medical stretcher will be captured. There will be no interventions, and no follow up of participants. The collected data will be used to train an AI algorithm (based on artificial neural networks) to estimate weight using a single depth image. Once the AI system is fully evolved, the accuracy of its weight estimation performance will be evaluated in an independent test dataset.