Performance of a Chest Radiograph AI Diagnostic Tool for COVID-19: A Prospective Observational Study.
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Abstract
To conduct a prospective observational study across 12 U.S. hospitals to evaluate real-time performance of an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) model to detect COVID-19 on chest radiographs. A total of 95 363 chest radiographs were included in model training, external validation, and real-time validation. The model was deployed as a clinical decision support system, and performance was prospectively evaluated. There were 5335 total real-time predictions and a COVID-19 prevalence of 4.8% (258 of 5335). Model performance was assessed with use of receiver operating characteristic analysis, precision-recall curves, and F1 score. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the association of race and sex with AI model diagnostic accuracy. To compare model accuracy with the performance of board-certified radiologists, a third dataset of 1638 images was read independently by two radiologists. Participants positive for COVID-19 had higher COVID-19 diagnostic scores than participants negative for COVID-19 (median, 0.1 [IQR, 0.0-0.8] vs 0.0 [IQR, 0.0-0.1], respectively; <i>P</i> < .001). Real-time model performance was unchanged over 19 weeks of implementation (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.70; 95% CI: 0.66, 0.73). Model sensitivity was higher in men than women (<i>P</i> = .01), whereas model specificity was higher in women (<i>P</i> = .001). Sensitivity was higher for Asian (<i>P</i> = .002) and Black (<i>P</i> = .046) participants compared with White participants. The COVID-19 AI diagnostic system had worse accuracy (63.5% correct) compared with radiologist predictions (radiologist 1 = 67.8% correct, radiologist 2 = 68.6% correct; McNemar <i>P</i> < .001 for both). AI-based tools have not yet reached full diagnostic potential for COVID-19 and underperform compared with radiologist prediction.<b>Keywords:</b> Diagnosis, Classification, Application Domain, Infection, Lung <i>Supplemental material is available for this article.</i>. © RSNA, 2022.