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AI Blind-Sweep Ultrasound for Antenatal Screening by Non-Specialist Health Workers in Rural DR Congo (FS2)

10. září 2026 aktualizováno: SOIK Corporation Sarl

Diagnostic Accuracy and Implementation Feasibility of AI-Assisted Blind Ultrasound Sweep (SPAQ E-con AI) for Antenatal Screening by Non-Specialist Health Workers in Rural Democratic Republic of the Congo

FS2 evaluates the diagnostic accuracy and implementation feasibility of an AI-assisted blind-sweep obstetric ultrasound (SPAQ E-con AI), operated by trained non-specialist health workers, for antenatal screening in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primary outcomes are gestational age mean absolute error (Trimester 2 and Trimester 3) with 95% confidence intervals and AI confidence calibration. The reference standard is manual measurement by a reference reader (early ultrasound first; manual BPD if unavailable; last menstrual period is not used). Planned enrollment is approximately 1,380: Batch 1 (closed, 80 enrolled) and Batch 2 (approximately 1,300), within an IRB-approved ceiling of 3,000. Early termination is permitted upon achievement of pre-specified analysis-plan thresholds. The study is a multi-center prospective Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation design and includes a pre-specified adaptive model-update (Batch 2 cut) plan following FDA PCCP and STARD-AI guidance.

Přehled studie

Postavení

Nábor

Podmínky

Intervence / Léčba

Detailní popis

Study conduct is organised in Batches. Batch 1 (Centre de Sante CBCO, Kenge health zone, Kwango province) enrolled 80 participants, of whom 78 had complete datasets, and is closed. Batch 2 is planned at approximately 1,300 participants. The confirmatory analysis cut is approximately 130 to 160 cases acquired with a model frozen before collection, comprising a core set of 80 to 100, an early-gestation enrichment of 25 to 30, and an upper-gestational-age enrichment of 25 to 30. Enrolment may stop early once the pre-specified confidence-interval criteria for the two primary gestational-age outcomes are met. The registered enrolment ceiling of 3,000 is unchanged.

Sites are facilities of the Kenge health zone, Kwango province, within the perimeter already approved in the protocol (up to 6 facilities plus 2 to 5 village outreach sites).

Eligibility follows the protocol: pregnant women aged 18 years or older. Multiple pregnancies are eligible.

Two sub-cohorts address the bounds of the gestational-age range. The early sub-cohort (crown-rump length 7 to 84 mm, approximately under 14 weeks) draws on the same source population as Cohort B-2 and is recruited through community health worker (RECO) village outreach and neighbouring health facilities; it is reported descriptively. The upper-bound sub-cohort (35 weeks or more) is a separate validation subset, recruited in parallel and analysed separately; sensitivity and specificity are reported, and positive and negative predictive values are not reported because prevalence in this subset is artificial.

The registered Trimester 3 estimation window (28 to 36 weeks) is unchanged. In Batch 2, point estimates are reported for 28 to 34 weeks, and 35 to 36 weeks is handled as "to be confirmed / refer". This is an operational reporting restriction, not a change to the registered window.

The AI model is identified and frozen before each Batch and recorded in a model and application version registry under a pre-determined change control plan. Results are reported by frozen version. AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.

Typ studie

Pozorovací

Zápis (Odhadovaný)

3000

Kontakty a umístění

Tato část poskytuje kontaktní údaje pro ty, kteří studii provádějí, a informace o tom, kde se tato studie provádí.

Studijní kontakt

  • Jméno: Kuniyuki Furuta
  • Telefonní číslo: +818099740409
  • E-mail: furuta@soik.co.jp

Studijní místa

Kritéria účasti

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Kritéria způsobilosti

Věk způsobilý ke studiu

  • Dospělý
  • Starší dospělý

Přijímá zdravé dobrovolníky

Ano

Metoda odběru vzorků

Vzorek nepravděpodobnosti

Studijní populace

Pregnant women attending routine antenatal care at participating facilities or identified through community health worker (RECO) village outreach in the Kenge health zone, Kwango province, DRC.

Popis

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant women aged 18 years or older
  • Identified at a participating facility routine ANC visit or RECO village outreach within the Kenge health zone catchment
  • Written informed consent obtained

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Emergency presentation
  • Duplicate re-registration of an already-enrolled woman
  • Lacking capacity to consent
  • Planned relocation outside Kwango province during the study period
  • Refusal of consent

Studijní plán

Tato část poskytuje podrobnosti o studijním plánu, včetně toho, jak je studie navržena a co studie měří.

Jak je studie koncipována?

Detaily designu

Kohorty a intervence

Skupina / kohorta
Intervence / Léčba
Cohort A
Natural enrollment / Description: Consecutive ANC attendees (natural prevalence)
Diagnostický test: SPAQ E-con AI blind-sweep ultrasound
Smartphone-based 9-sweep obstetric ultrasound with AI estimation of gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta location, operated by trained non-specialist health workers after 30-60 minutes of training. The AI model is frozen before each Batch and managed in a version registry under a pre-determined change control plan (PCCP); AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.
Cohort B-1 Placenta/malpresentation enriched
Enriched validation subset for placenta praevia and fetal malpresentation
Diagnostický test: SPAQ E-con AI blind-sweep ultrasound
Smartphone-based 9-sweep obstetric ultrasound with AI estimation of gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta location, operated by trained non-specialist health workers after 30-60 minutes of training. The AI model is frozen before each Batch and managed in a version registry under a pre-determined change control plan (PCCP); AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.
Cohort B-2 - Trimester 1 (CRL/GS) enriched
Enriched trimester 1 cases for CRL/GS gestational age models
Diagnostický test: SPAQ E-con AI blind-sweep ultrasound
Smartphone-based 9-sweep obstetric ultrasound with AI estimation of gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta location, operated by trained non-specialist health workers after 30-60 minutes of training. The AI model is frozen before each Batch and managed in a version registry under a pre-determined change control plan (PCCP); AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.
Cohort B-3 - Early gestation (CRL 7-84 mm) enriched
Early-gestation enrichment sub-cohort: crown-rump length 7-84 mm, approximately under 14 weeks of gestation. Drawn from the same source population as Cohort B-2 and recruited through community health worker (RECO) village outreach and neighbouring health facilities. Reported descriptively.
Diagnostický test: SPAQ E-con AI blind-sweep ultrasound
Smartphone-based 9-sweep obstetric ultrasound with AI estimation of gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta location, operated by trained non-specialist health workers after 30-60 minutes of training. The AI model is frozen before each Batch and managed in a version registry under a pre-determined change control plan (PCCP); AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.
Cohort B-4 - Upper gestational-age bound (>=35 weeks) validation subset
Validation subset at the upper bound of the gestational-age range (35 weeks of gestation or more), recruited in parallel with the main cohort and analysed separately. Sensitivity and specificity are reported. Positive and negative predictive values are not reported, because prevalence in this subset is artificial.
Diagnostický test: SPAQ E-con AI blind-sweep ultrasound
Smartphone-based 9-sweep obstetric ultrasound with AI estimation of gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta location, operated by trained non-specialist health workers after 30-60 minutes of training. The AI model is frozen before each Batch and managed in a version registry under a pre-determined change control plan (PCCP); AI inference is not used for clinical decision-making.

Co je měření studie?

Primární výstupní opatření

Měření výsledku
Popis opatření
Časové okno
Gestational age mean absolute error (MAE), Trimester 2 (14-27 weeks)
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
MAE in days vs reference standard, with 95% CI; target MAE ≤7 days and upper 95% CI ≤10 days
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Gestational age mean absolute error (MAE), Trimester 3 (28-36 weeks)
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
MAE in days vs reference standard, with 95% CI; target MAE ≤10 days and upper 95% CI ≤14 days
Through study completion, up to 12 months
AI confidence calibration - Expected Calibration Error (ECE)
Časové okno: At Batch 1 closure, up to 8 weeks
Expected Calibration Error from the reliability diagram of AI confidence versus reference-standard agreement; target <=0.05
At Batch 1 closure, up to 8 weeks
AI confidence calibration - Brier score
Časové okno: At Batch 1 closure, up to 8 weeks
Brier score of AI confidence versus reference-standard agreement; target <=0.20
At Batch 1 closure, up to 8 weeks

Sekundární výstupní opatření

Měření výsledku
Popis opatření
Časové okno
Trimester 1 gestational age MAE (CRL and GS models)
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Integrated Cohort A T1 + Cohort B-2, N=30; CRL model MAE ≤5 days or GS model MAE ≤7 days
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Placenta praevia and fetal malpresentation sensitivity and specificity
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Observed sensitivity/specificity with 95% CI (Clopper-Pearson) on enriched validation subset (Cohort B-1, target N=20-25); reported as observed values
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Inter-rater reliability of gestational age - Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC)
Časové okno: During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
ICC(2,1) between two independent readers for gestational age in days
During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
Inter-rater reliability of placenta praevia classification - Cohen's kappa
Časové okno: During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
Cohen's kappa for placenta praevia (yes/no) between two independent readers
During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
Inter-rater reliability of fetal presentation classification - weighted kappa
Časové okno: During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
Linear weighted kappa for fetal presentation category between two independent readers
During the inter-rater assessment window, up to 1 week
Acceptability - Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) score
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Mean AIM score (4-item, 5-point Likert) among health workers
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Feasibility - ultrasound throughput (scans per device per day)
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Number of scans completed per device per day; target >=15
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Fidelity - protocol adherence rate (5-item checklist)
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Percentage adherence on a 5-item fidelity checklist; target >=80%
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Penetration - proportion of eligible women screened
Časové okno: Through study completion, up to 12 months
Percentage of eligible women in the catchment screened with AI ultrasound
Through study completion, up to 12 months
Sustainability - intention to continue use
Časové okno: At study completion, up to 12 months
Percentage of staff reporting intention to continue use at the end-of-study interview
At study completion, up to 12 months

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Sponzor

SOIK Corporation Sarl

Vyšetřovatelé

  • Vrchní vyšetřovatel: Kuniyuki Furuta, SOIK Corporation

Termíny studijních záznamů

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Hlavní termíny studia

Začátek studia (Aktuální)

19. června 2026

Primární dokončení (Odhadovaný)

31. prosince 2026

Dokončení studie (Odhadovaný)

13. června 2027

Termíny zápisu do studia

První předloženo

18. června 2026

První předloženo, které splnilo kritéria kontroly kvality

24. června 2026

První zveřejněno (Aktuální)

1. července 2026

Aktualizace studijních záznamů

Poslední zveřejněná aktualizace (Aktuální)

15. září 2026

Odeslaná poslední aktualizace, která splnila kritéria kontroly kvality

10. září 2026

Naposledy ověřeno

1. září 2026

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