Knowledge-driven AI-generated data for accurate and interpretable breast ultrasound diagnoses
<|reference_start|>Knowledge-driven AI-generated data for accurate and interpretable breast ultrasound diagnoses: Data-driven deep learning models have shown great capabilities to assist radiologists in breast ultrasound (US) diagnoses. However, their effectiveness is limited by the long-tail distribution of training data, which leads to inaccuracies in rare cases. In this study, we address a long-standing challenge of improving the diagnostic model performance on rare cases using long-tailed data. Specifically, we introduce a pipeline, TAILOR, that builds a knowledge-driven generative model to produce tailored synthetic data. The generative model, using 3,749 lesions as source data, can generate millions of breast-US images, especially for error-prone rare cases. The generated data can be further used to build a diagnostic model for accurate and interpretable diagnoses. In the prospective external evaluation, our diagnostic model outperforms the average performance of nine radiologists by 33.5% in specificity with the same sensitivity, improving their performance by providing predictions with an interpretable decision-making process. Moreover, on ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), our diagnostic model outperforms all radiologists by a large margin, with only 34 DCIS lesions in the source data. We believe that TAILOR can potentially be extended to various diseases and imaging modalities.<|reference_end|>
@article{yu2024knowledge-driven,
    title={Knowledge-driven AI-generated data for accurate and interpretable breast
  ultrasound diagnoses},
    author={Haojun Yu, Youcheng Li, Nan Zhang, Zihan Niu, Xuantong Gong, Yanwen
  Luo, Quanlin Wu, Wangyan Qin, Mengyuan Zhou, Jie Han, Jia Tao, Ziwei Zhao, Di
  Dai, Di He, Dong Wang, Binghui Tang, Ling Huo, Qingli Zhu, Yong Wang and
  Liwei Wang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16634},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.16634},
    primaryClass={eess.IV cs.AI cs.CV cs.HC}
}