Virtual imaging trials improved the transparency and reliability of AI systems in COVID-19 imaging

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العنوان: Virtual imaging trials improved the transparency and reliability of AI systems in COVID-19 imaging
المؤلفون: Tushar, Fakrul Islam, Dahal, Lavsen, Sotoudeh-Paima, Saman, Abadi, Ehsan, Segars, W. Paul, Samei, Ehsan, Lo, Joseph Y.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: The credibility of AI models in medical imaging is often challenged by reproducibility issues and obscured clinical insights, a reality highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic by many reports of near-perfect artificial intelligence (AI) models that all failed to generalize. To address these concerns, we propose a virtual imaging trial framework, employing a diverse collection of medical images that are both clinical and simulated. In this study, COVID-19 serves as a case example to unveil the intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing AI performance. Our findings underscore a significant impact of dataset characteristics on AI efficacy. Even when trained on large, diverse clinical datasets with thousands of patients, AI performance plummeted by up to 20% in generalization. However, virtual imaging trials offer a robust platform for objective assessment, unveiling nuanced insights into the relationships between patient- and physics-based factors and AI performance. For instance, disease extent markedly influenced AI efficacy, computed tomography (CT) out-performed chest radiography (CXR), while imaging dose exhibited minimal impact. Using COVID-19 as a case study, this virtual imaging trial study verified that radiology AI models often suffer from a reproducibility crisis. Virtual imaging trials not only offered a solution for objective performance assessment but also extracted several clinical insights. This study illuminates the path for leveraging virtual imaging to augment the reliability, transparency, and clinical relevance of AI in medical imaging.
Comment: 3 tables, 4 figures, 1 Supplement
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09730
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2308.09730
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv