AI in the Cath Lab: Implications of Clinical AI-Enabled Assistance for Intravascular Ultrasound Procedures

Clinical decision support tools enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) are entering the medical field slowly, emerging into a space not yet fully regulated by the FDA and with unclear impacts to both medical professionals and patients. Early AI-based clinical decision support systems in healthcare...

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Main Author: Borris, Mercer
Other Authors: Levi, Retsef
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151469
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7724-0771
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description Clinical decision support tools enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) are entering the medical field slowly, emerging into a space not yet fully regulated by the FDA and with unclear impacts to both medical professionals and patients. Early AI-based clinical decision support systems in healthcare often focus on assisting tasks related to various modalities of medical imaging. Given the emphasis of the supportive nature of these tools, physicians maintain responsibility for the ultimate decisions. This thesis investigates the impact of an AI-enabled tool on clinical decision-making and task completion time of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) workflows for coronary procedures. It is based on an experiment that was conducted with the support of Boston Scientific, where engineers have recently developed an exploratory AI model for annotating IVUS images as part of a strategic effort to improve patient outcomes and increase in-house AI knowledge. The experiment results show that completed tasks incorporating the tool’s AI-based calculations are 31% more accurate than the current standard, though this difference is not statistically significant. The AI-enabled tool also significantly reduces the time spent on IVUS workflow decision-making by 18%. A software architecture is also proposed to gather insights on physician-AI interaction and enable continuous monitoring and improvement of productionized AI algorithms.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1514692023-08-01T03:21:43Z AI in the Cath Lab: Implications of Clinical AI-Enabled Assistance for Intravascular Ultrasound Procedures Borris, Mercer Levi, Retsef Daniel, Luca Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sloan School of Management Clinical decision support tools enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) are entering the medical field slowly, emerging into a space not yet fully regulated by the FDA and with unclear impacts to both medical professionals and patients. Early AI-based clinical decision support systems in healthcare often focus on assisting tasks related to various modalities of medical imaging. Given the emphasis of the supportive nature of these tools, physicians maintain responsibility for the ultimate decisions. This thesis investigates the impact of an AI-enabled tool on clinical decision-making and task completion time of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) workflows for coronary procedures. It is based on an experiment that was conducted with the support of Boston Scientific, where engineers have recently developed an exploratory AI model for annotating IVUS images as part of a strategic effort to improve patient outcomes and increase in-house AI knowledge. The experiment results show that completed tasks incorporating the tool’s AI-based calculations are 31% more accurate than the current standard, though this difference is not statistically significant. The AI-enabled tool also significantly reduces the time spent on IVUS workflow decision-making by 18%. A software architecture is also proposed to gather insights on physician-AI interaction and enable continuous monitoring and improvement of productionized AI algorithms. S.M. M.B.A. 2023-07-31T19:42:15Z 2023-07-31T19:42:15Z 2023-06 2023-07-14T19:55:53.996Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151469 https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7724-0771 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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AI in the Cath Lab: Implications of Clinical AI-Enabled Assistance for Intravascular Ultrasound Procedures
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title_short AI in the Cath Lab: Implications of Clinical AI-Enabled Assistance for Intravascular Ultrasound Procedures
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