Structured reporting with AI assistance significantly improves diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in bedside chest x-ray interpretation.
Key Details
- 1Study compared free-text, structured, and AI-assisted structured reporting on 35 bedside chest x-rays.
- 2Readers included 4 novices and 4 experienced radiologists; AI used a CNN trained on 122,294 x-rays.
- 3AI-assisted structured reporting boosted diagnostic accuracy (kappa = 0.71, p < 0.001), with improvements for both novice and non-novice readers.
- 4Reporting time dropped from 88.1 seconds (free-text) to 37.3 (structured) and 25.0 seconds (AI-assisted) per radiograph (all p < 0.001).
- 5Structured reporting and AI shifted visual attention from the report text to the x-ray image, focusing on key anatomical regions.
- 6Authors recommend further research in real-world, multicenter workflows with full clinical context and bias controls.
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