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. 2021 Apr 16;31(10):7960–7968. doi: 10.1007/s00330-021-07879-w

Table 1.

How radiologists can contribute to AI development process

Step Definition How radiologists can contribute
1. Defining use case and the conceptual design Defining clear, clinically relevant use case to achieving specific outcomes (e.g., increasing the speed, accuracy, and efficiency) and translating it into the conceptual design of the solution Guiding the developers towards clinically relevant use cases (what problem to focus on) and how their solutions can potentially be used by radiologists [6]
2. Data sourcing and curation Collecting, selecting, cleaning, and organizing the data that is needed for the training and validation of the algorithm Sharing their data (images and scans), thus being the connection between the available data in the medical world and the AI vendor [8]
3. Labeling and establishing the ground truth Defining the ground truth and (in case of supervised learning) labeling data Radiologists as domain experts act on labeling the medical data and are consulted for establishing the ground truth [8, 9]
4. Training the algorithm Configuring the algorithm (e.g., setting the parameters) and training it [No specific role of radiologists is currently suggested in the literature]
5. Testing and validating the AI application Using appropriate and dedicated (reference) datasets to validate trained algorithms and ensure their accuracy and generalizability to clinical cases Checking the results of the algorithm to be accurate and stable and radiologists can trust them [10, 11]