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RADIOLOGY
Volume 295, Issue 3, Pages 626-637Publisher
RADIOLOGICAL SOC NORTH AMERICA
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2020190283
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- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Resident Research grant [RR1778]
- institutional T-32 training grants [T32EB001631-14, T32-EB004311-10]
- RSNA Education Scholar grant [ESCH1505]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant (T32)
- NIH R01 grant
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Background: Although artificial intelligence (AI) shows promise across many aspects of radiology, the use of AI to create differential diagnoses for rare and common diseases at brain MRI has not been demonstrated. Purpose: To evaluate an AI system for generation of differential diagnoses at brain MRI compared with radiologists. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study tested performance of an AI system for probabilistic diagnosis in patients with 19 common and rare diagnoses at brain MRI acquired between January 2008 and January 2018. The AI system combines data-driven and domain-expertise methodologies, including deep learning and Bayesian networks. First, lesions were detected by using deep learning. Then, 18 quantitative imaging features were extracted by using atlas-based coregistration and segmentation. Third, these image features were combined with five clinical features by using Bayesian inference to develop probability-ranked differential diagnoses. Quantitative feature extraction algorithms and conditional probabilities were fine-tuned on a training set of 86 patients (mean age, 49 years +/- 16 [standard deviation]; 53 women). Accuracy was compared with radiology residents, general radiologists, neuroradiology fellows, and academic neuroradiologists by using accuracy of top one, top two, and top three differential diagnoses in 92 independent test set patients (mean age, 47 years +/- 18; 52 women). Results: For accuracy of top three differential diagnoses, the AI system (91% correct) performed similarly to academic neuroradiologists(86% correct; P =.20), and better than radiology residents (56%; P<.001), general radiologists (57%; P<.001), andneuroradiology fellows (77%; P =.003). The performance of the AI system was not affected by disease prevalence (93% accuracyfor common vs 85% for rare diseases; P =.26). Radiologists were more accurate at diagnosing common versus rare diagnoses (78%vs 47% across all radiologists; P<.001). Conclusion: An artificial intelligence system for brain MRI approached overall top one, top two, and top three differential diagnoses accuracy of neuroradiologists and exceeded that of less-specialized radiologists. (C) RSNA, 2020
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