AI Orthopaedics Tool.

An AI assistant that shortens joint-replacement planning from hours to minutes. The model suggests; the surgeon makes every call.

Context

Surgeons were spending hours per case planning joint replacements across disconnected tools.

Challenge

Integrate the ML team’s segmentation model into a workflow surgeons would trust and use on real patients.

Non-negotiables

Calls I made

01
Surgeon in control
The model proposes, the surgeon decides. Every step is reviewed and signed off by a clinician.
02
Simple data layer
Kept the underlying schema flat so patient data stays isolated and easy to audit.

Trade-offs accepted

Chose guided manual review over end-to-end automation. Slower in theory, but it was the approach surgeons would actually adopt.
Prioritised reliability and explainability over additional features.

Outcome

Pre-operative planning time dropped, and the tool is now used on every case on the ward where it was deployed.