Some practical issues for assessment of computer-aided diagnostic scheme

Qiang Li; Kunio Doi

doi:10.1117/12.709489

30 March 2007 Some practical issues for assessment of computer-aided diagnostic schemes

Qiang Li, Kunio Doi

Proceedings Volume 6514, Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 651427 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709489
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) schemes have been developed for assisting radiologists in the detection of various lesions in medical images. The reliable evaluation of CAD schemes is an important task in the field of CAD research. In the past, many evaluation approaches, such as the resubstitution, leave-one-out, cross-valiation, and hold-out methods have been used for evaluating the performance of various CAD schemes. However, some important issues in the evaluation of CAD schemes have not been systematically analyzed, either theoretically or experimentally. The first important issue is the analysis and comparison of various evaluation methods in terms of some characteristics, in particular, the bias and the generalization performance of the trained CAD schemes. The second includes the analysis of pitfalls in the incorrect use of various evaluation methods and the effective approaches to the reduction of the bias and variance caused by these pitfalls. We attempt to address the above important issues in this article. We believe that this article would be useful to researchers in the field of CAD research for selecting appropriate evluation methods and for improving the reliability of the estimated performance of their CAD schemes.

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Qiang Li and Kunio Doi "Some practical issues for assessment of computer-aided diagnostic schemes", Proc. SPIE 6514, Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 651427 (30 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709489

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