Author:
Rodriguez-Ruiz Alejandro,Lång Kristina,Gubern-Merida Albert,Broeders Mireille,Gennaro Gisella,Clauser Paola,Helbich Thomas H,Chevalier Margarita,Tan Tao,Mertelmeier Thomas,Wallis Matthew G,Andersson Ingvar,Zackrisson Sophia,Mann Ritse M,Sechopoulos Ioannis
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems performing at radiologist-like levels in the evaluation of digital mammography (DM) would improve breast cancer screening accuracy and efficiency. We aimed to compare the stand-alone performance of an AI system to that of radiologists in detecting breast cancer in DM.
Methods
Nine multi-reader, multi-case study datasets previously used for different research purposes in seven countries were collected. Each dataset consisted of DM exams acquired with systems from four different vendors, multiple radiologists’ assessments per exam, and ground truth verified by histopathological analysis or follow-up, yielding a total of 2652 exams (653 malignant) and interpretations by 101 radiologists (28 296 independent interpretations). An AI system analyzed these exams yielding a level of suspicion of cancer present between 1 and 10. The detection performance between the radiologists and the AI system was compared using a noninferiority null hypothesis at a margin of 0.05.
Results
The performance of the AI system was statistically noninferior to that of the average of the 101 radiologists. The AI system had a 0.840 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.820 to 0.860) area under the ROC curve and the average of the radiologists was 0.814 (95% CI = 0.787 to 0.841) (difference 95% CI = −0.003 to 0.055). The AI system had an AUC higher than 61.4% of the radiologists.
Conclusions
The evaluated AI system achieved a cancer detection accuracy comparable to an average breast radiologist in this retrospective setting. Although promising, the performance and impact of such a system in a screening setting needs further investigation.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Cited by
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