Putting AI algorithms under the microscope

Professor Bram van Ginneken - who has organised many of these challenge events - will highlight this approach in his ECR 2021 presentation "Benefits of AI challenges to clinical practice." In it, he will discuss AI challenges and their organisation, offer an understanding of what happens with the data collected, and point out algorithms which won AI challenges and made it to the clinic. In addition, the work Professor van Ginneken and his associates are doing in this field is also enabling the development of other algorithms, often in very specialist areas that would not normally attract the development interest of major vendors. Speaking ahead of the ECR virtual session, he said the challenge events create an opportunity to compare algorithms for particular tasks. With some 150 products for AI in radiology with CE certification for use in Europe, commercial sensitivity among vendors means the content of some algorithms remains unclear, said Professor van Ginneken, who is Professor of Medical Image Analysis at Radboud University Medical Center in The Netherlands.