Adult-trained radiology AI models often underperform when applied to pediatric imaging data, according to a systematic review.
Key Details
- 1Researchers reviewed over 2,000 articles but only 15 met inclusion criteria for full-text analysis.
- 2Studied AI tasks included segmentation, object detection, and classification.
- 3Only 2 adult-trained models (organ segmentation on CT) showed similar accuracy between adults and children.
- 4Most models performed worse on pediatric data, with variable degrees of performance drop.
- 5Fine-tuning with limited pediatric data led to improvements in 5 out of 6 studies, but none outperformed the original adult-trained models.
- 6Findings highlight the need for dedicated pediatric imaging datasets for AI model development.
Why It Matters
Reliable AI model performance for pediatric imaging cannot be assumed based on adult-trained models alone. This underscores a critical demand for collecting pediatric-specific data to develop safe and effective AI tools for children.
Source
AuntMinnie
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