A team led by Wen-Juan Tong from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, found while the aforementioned strategy could benefit senior radiologists, an “all-AI” strategy could be even more beneficial to less-experienced radiologists.

“By evaluating the association between ultrasonographic image features and AI-assisted diagnostic performance, we developed an optimized strategy to inform how radiologists with different expertise levels could benefit when integrating AI-generated recommendations,” Tong and co-authors wrote.

Improving diagnostic performance

Previous studies suggest…