Performance and Agreement When Annotating Chest X-ray Text Reports—A Preliminary Step in the Development of a Deep Learning-Based Prioritization and Detection System

Dana Li, Lea Marie Pehrson, Rasmus Bonnevie, Marco Fraccaro, Jakob Thrane, Lea Tøttrup, Carsten Ammitzbøl Lauridsen, Sedrah Butt Balaganeshan, Jelena Jankovic, Tobias Thostrup Andersen, Alyas Mayar, Kristoffer Lindskov Hansen, Jonathan Frederik Carlsen, Sune Darkner, Michael Bachmann Nielsen

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Abstract

A chest X-ray report is a communicative tool and can be used as data for developing artificial intelligence-based decision support systems. For both, consistent understanding and labeling is important. Our aim was to investigate how readers would comprehend and annotate 200 chest X-ray reports. Reports written between 1 January 2015 and 11 March 2022 were selected based on search words. Annotators included three board-certified radiologists, two trained radiologists (physicians), two radiographers (radiological technicians), a non-radiological physician, and a medical student. Consensus labels by two or more of the experienced radiologists were considered “gold standard”. Matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC) was calculated to assess annotation performance, and descriptive statistics were used to assess agreement between individual annotators and labels. The intermediate radiologist had the best correlation to “gold standard” (MCC 0.77). This was followed by the novice radiologist and medical student (MCC 0.71 for both), the novice radiographer (MCC 0.65), non-radiological physician (MCC 0.64), and experienced radiographer (MCC 0.57). Our findings showed that for developing an artificial intelligence-based support system, if trained radiologists are not available, annotations from non-radiological annotators with basic and general knowledge may be more aligned with radiologists compared to annotations from sub-specialized medical staff, if their sub-specialization is outside of diagnostic radiology.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer1070
TidsskriftDiagnostics
Vol/bind13
Udgave nummer6
ISSN2075-4418
DOI
StatusUdgivet - mar. 2023

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