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Understanding artificial intelligence based radiology studies: What is overfitting?

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Mutasa, Simukayi, Sun, Shawn, Ha, Richard·2020·Clinical Imaging

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad umbrella term used to encompass a wide variety of subfields dedicated to creating algorithms to perform tasks that mimic human intelligence. As AI development grows closer to clinical integration, radiologists will need to become familiar with the principles of artificial intelligence to properly evaluate and use this powerful tool. This series aims to explain certain basic concepts of artificial intelligence, and their applications in medical imaging starting with a concept of overfitting.

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  • Overfitting is a common problem encountered during validation which may significantly impact generalizability and contribute to bias among underrepresented groups of patients.

    “Overfitting is a common problem encountered during the validation of the model which may significantly impact its generalizability and contribute to bias among underrepresented groups of patients [42,43].”

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    The Conclusion and Overfitting sections call overfitting a common pitfall and explain that it reduces performance on new data and limits generalizability. The Importance of external validation section connects that risk to the need for validation. The copy does not specifically say that overfitting occurs during validation or that it contributes to bias among underrepresented patient groups. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  1. [34]Bell RM, Koren Y. SIGKDD Explor Newsl. Lessons from the Netflix prize challenge 9. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2007. p. 75– 9.

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Authors
Mutasa, S., Sun, S., & Ha, R.
Affiliations
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Mutasa, Simukayi
  • Sun, Shawn
  • Ha, Richard
Venue
Clinical Imaging
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-09
Volume
65
Pages
96-99
ISSN
0899-7071 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3020614853
Cited by
216
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 12
FWCI
2.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical Imaging (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R38CA231577)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
Keywords
overfitting, artificial intelligence, machine learning, diagnostic imaging, radiology, deep learning, clinical implementation of AI
MeSH terms
Radiologists, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Humans, Radiology

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