{"id":154477,"date":"2026-07-28T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//?p=154477"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:19:08","slug":"ucf-students-va-doctor-develop-ai-tool-to-help-doctors-identify-chronic-pelvic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//ucf-students-va-doctor-develop-ai-tool-to-help-doctors-identify-chronic-pelvic-pain/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Students, VA Doctor Develop AI Tool to Help Doctors Identify Chronic Pelvic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

For millions of women living with chronic pelvic pain (CPP), finding answers can take far too long./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

Studies have shown the condition affects nearly one in four women worldwide and is linked to dozens of potential disorders involving multiple organ systems. Yet many healthcare providers receive only limited training in diagnosing the source of pain, often leaving patients facing years of uncertainty, repeated testing and ineffective treatments before receiving the right diagnosis./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

A yearlong collaboration between a UCF physician-scientist and two biomedical sciences undergraduate students aims to create a better environment for doctors and patients to reach an understanding together. Biomedical sciences students Sarah Gabriela Nieto Chavarro and second-year Juliana Dimetry interned with Georgine Lamvu, a UCF College of Medicine volunteer professor of obstetrics and gynecology, to transform years of international research into a practical tool to help clinicians evaluate patients more quickly and confidently./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

The team is developing an AI-assisted clinical questionnaire application that guides physicians through a patient’s symptoms and identifies which organ systems and conditions should be examined. Rather than replacing a physician/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2019s judgment, the application compiles patient histories quickly to help guide physicians toward making a clearer diagnosis./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

From International Research to a Practical Tool/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

Despite the prevalence of CPP, many healthcare providers lack specialized training in diagnosing the underlying condition because symptoms often overlap with gastrointestinal, urinary, musculoskeletal and reproductive disorders./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201cWe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2019re hoping that this can become easy to use and can take a detailed medical history that could take an hour to get through down to just 5 to 10 minutes./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2014 Georgine Lamvu, volunteer professor and Orlando VA practitioner/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201cWe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2019re hoping that this can become easy to use and can take a detailed medical history that could take an hour to get through down to just 5 to 10 minutes,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201d says Lamvu, who practices at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Orlando and directs its gynecological surgery fellowship program and center. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201cThat allows physicians to have a more efficient evaluation and spend more time with the patient./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

The center is a pioneering program designed to address the growing demand for specialized gynecologic care among women veterans. As the number of women veterans using VA healthcare services is expected to increase significantly, this fellowship and center aims to train highly skilled gynecologists to meet their healthcare needs within the VA system and beyond./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

As part of that initiative, this project builds upon nearly five years of work led by Lamvu alongside an international coalition of physicians, researchers and patient advocacy groups./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

Their research culminated in an international consensus called R U MOVING SOMe, an acronym that categorizes the broad range of symptoms associated with chronic pelvic pain and is the basis of the AI-tool Lamvu and her team developed./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

Finding a Definitive Diagnosis/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

Lamvu says the team translated the clinical research into the logic behind a chatbot-style application that asks fewer than 20 targeted questions. Physicians enter a patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2019s symptoms and history into the program, which then suggests the organ systems and conditions most likely responsible for the pain, helping clinicians focus their evaluation./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

The team plans to expand the application beyond patient questionnaires by incorporating physical examination findings into the same scoring system. Ultimately, the researchers say they hope it can be used in any practice that serves women, but it may be years away from being realized./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201cPhysicians just need a way of processing all the information that comes from the patient to narrow it down to a differential diagnosis,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201d Lamvu says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201cRight now, it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u2019s all too common to see healthcare workers panic a little when they hear a patient has chronic pelvic pain because it’s considered a complex condition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/154477/n