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Incidental pulmonary embolism on chest CT: AI vs. clinical reports
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Leesburg: According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), an AI tool for detection of incidental pulmonary embolus (iPE) on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations had high NPV and moderate PPV for detection, even finding some iPEs missed by radiologists.
"Potential applications of the AI tool include serving as a second reader to help detect additional iPEs or as a worklist triage tool to allow earlier iPE detection and intervention," wrote lead investigator Kiran Batra from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "Various explanations of misclassifications by the AI tool (both false positives and false negatives) were identified, to provide targets for model improvement."
Batra and colleagues' retrospective study included 2,555 patients (1,340 women, 1,215 men; mean age, 53.6 years) who underwent 3,003 conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations between September 2019 and February 2020 at Parkland Health in Dallas, TX.
Using an FDA-approved, commercially available AI tool (Aidoc, New York, NY) to detect acute iPE on the images, a vendor-supplied natural language processing algorithm (RepScheme, Tel Aviv, Israel) was then applied to the clinical reports to identify examinations interpreted as positive for iPE.
Ultimately, the commercial AI tool had NPV of 99.8% and PPV of 86.7% for detection of iPE on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations (i.e., not using CT pulmonary angiography protocols). Of 40 iPEs present in the team's study sample, 7 were detected only by the clinical reports, and 4 were detected only by AI.
Noting that both the AI tool and clinical reports detected iPEs missed by the other method, "the diagnostic performance of the AI tool did not show significant variation across study subgroups," the authors of this AJR article added.
North America's first radiological society, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) remains dedicated to the advancement of medicine through the profession of medical imaging and its allied sciences. An international forum for progress in radiology since the discovery of the x-ray, ARRS maintains its mission of improving health through a community committed to advancing knowledge and skills with the world's longest continuously published radiology journal-American Journal of Roentgenology-the ARRS Annual Meeting, InPractice magazine, topical symposia, myriad multimedia educational materials, as well as awarding scholarships via The Roentgen Fund.
Reference:
Chris Baker, Khaled M. Al-Hreish, Ronald M. Peshock, Yin Xi, Fernando Kay, Travis Browning, Kiran Batra, American Journal of Roentgenology: -. 10.2214/AJR.22.27895
Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751