Ambitions

The aim of SENTINEL is to create and test a new mobile triage application for ambulance and Emergency Department (ED) services to assess, by the roadside, adult pedestrian brain injuries (16yo+), faster, more accurately and efficiently than current NHS systems.

The SENTINEL mobile triage tool will be achieved by:

• a computation phase using a state-of-the-art and free to download skull and brain human computer model from Toyota, and creating a computer routine to extract TBI against a historical pedestrian collision database;
• converting this trauma extraction computer code into a fast and portable Machine Learning (ML) equivalent;
• forging a stronger partnership between Emergency services and hospitals by creating, for the first time, new processes to capture photographic/ photogrammetry evidence at the collision and merge this information with the hospital Electronic Patient Record (EPR), creating a West Midlands pedestrian collisions dataset, and;
• validate the ML computer programme with this West Midlands dataset before creating the final mobile application tool, which will be deployed and tested by ambulances for in-situ pedestrian TBI assessment.

This project will start in November 2024 for the duration of 3 years and aims to follow the following flow: