Nature Scientific Reports Publishes Novel AI Technique That Can Automatically Detect Poor-Quality Medical Data and Improve Healthcare AI and Data Privacy

A recent paper in the journal Nature Scientific Reports shows that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can automatically detect errors in poor-quality medical data, even errors that are difficult for medical experts to manually identify.

The innovative algorithm, called UDC, was developed by AI Healthcare company Presagen. It was applied to two medical problems in radiology and IVF, and two non-medical problems, detection of mis-labeled cats and dogs, and vehicle types. In all cases the algorithm was able to effectively detect which individual data had errors or quality issues. When the poor-quality data was removed, the ‘clean’ data allowed the development of AI with greater accuracy and scalability, which are critical for commercial AI applications.

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The algorithm was one of the core technologies used to develop Presagen’s first healthcare product Life Whisperer, which uses AI to assess images of embryos in IVF to help improve pregnancy outcomes for couples. In a published international clinical study Life Whisperer was shown to perform 25% better than current manual embryo assessment methods. Life Whisperer is currently being used by IVF clinics globally.

Dr Michelle Perugini, Presagen Co-Founder and CEO said “Real world problems like healthcare are not Kaggle competitions. Medical data are inherently poor quality due to clinical subjectivity, uncertainty, and even adversarial attacks where data contributors intentionally contribute poor-quality data. It is not always possible to reliably detect errors in data, even by experts. We have seen that even 1% poor-quality data can impact AI performance. This ground-breaking technique can automatically detect poor-quality data and allows us to build robust commercial AI products that can be used reliably.”

The UDC algorithm demonstrated a range of additional benefits.

Dr Jonathan Hall, Presagen’s Co-Founder and Chief Scientist said “A major benefit of the algorithm is data privacy. The algorithm can automatically detect errors without the need for manual visual verification of private patient data. The UDC was also shown to detect errors in benchmark or ‘test’ data used to validate the performance of AI. Benchmark datasets can contain dormant errors, and thus testing AI on these datasets can mislead users to actual performance of the AI.”

When applied to images of x-rays to detect pneumonia, the UDC found several x-ray images to be neither correct nor an error, but generally poor quality or lacking suitable features for diagnosis. Verification of these images by an independent radiologist also agreed that they were indeed difficult images to diagnose.

Removal of these poor-quality (difficult) images identified by UDC improved AI accuracy for diagnosing pneumonia in x-rays images by over 10%, and the AI was shown to be more scalable (generalizable). The accuracy also exceeded benchmarks set by the current literature for that public dataset.

Results suggest these poor-quality x-ray images identified by the UDC are uninformative, counter-productive, or confusing when used in training AI. The ability to identify when new images are poor-quality is important to prevent an inaccurate AI clinical assessment, but also to alert the radiologist when the scan is likely to be difficult to diagnose or when a new scan should be taken.

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