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Methods: This retrospective single-center study included 46 patients (23 with CT-confirmed PTX and 23 controls). Sixty B-mode and M-mode frames per patient were extracted using a Clarius C3 HD3 wireless device, yielding 2760 images. CT served as the diagnostic reference. Experimental studies were conducted within the framework of three scenarios. Transformer-based models, Vision Transformer (ViT) and DINOv2, were trained and tested under two scenarios: random frame split and patient-level split. Also, Random Forest (RF) and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifiers were trained on the feature maps extracted by using Video Vision Transformer (ViViT) for ultrasound video sequences in Scenario 3. Model performance was evaluated using accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F1-score, and area under the ROC curve (AUC). Results: Both transformers achieved high diagnostic accuracy, with B-mode images outperforming M-mode inputs in the first two scenarios. In Scenario 1, ViT reached 99.1% accuracy, while DINOv2 achieved 97.3%. In Scenario 2, which avoided data leakage, DINOv2 performed best in the B-mode region (90% accuracy, 80% sensitivity, 100% specificity, F1-score 88.9%). ROC analysis confirmed strong discriminative ability, with AUC values of 0.973 for DINOv2 and 0.964 for ViT on B-mode images. Also, both RF and XGBoost classifiers trained on the ViViT feature maps reached 90% accuracy on the video sequences. Conclusions: AI-assisted LUS substantially improves PTX detection, with transformers\u2014particularly DINOv2\u2014achieving near-expert accuracy. Larger multicenter datasets are required for validation and clinical integration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/tomography11110121","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,31]],"date-time":"2025-10-31T01:23:59Z","timestamp":1761873839000},"page":"121","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Lung Ultrasound for Pneumothorax: Diagnostic Accuracy Compared with CT in Emergency and Critical Care"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5118-0780","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u0130smail","family":"Dal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu 37150, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2272-5243","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kemal","family":"Akyol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu 37150, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R112","DOI":"10.1186\/cc5004","article-title":"Rapid detection of pneumothorax by ultrasonography in patients with multiple trauma","volume":"10","author":"Zhang","year":"2006","journal-title":"Crit. 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