Peri-Diagnostic Decision Support Through Cost-Efficient Feature Acquisition at Test-Time

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14127v2
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:24:07 GMT
• Title: Peri-Diagnostic Decision Support Through Cost-Efficient Feature Acquisition at Test-Time
• Authors: Gerome Vivar, Kamilia Mullakaeva, Andreas Zwergal, Nassir Navab, and Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi
• Abstract summary: A sub-problem in CADx is to guide the physician during the entire peri-diagnostic workflow, including the acquisition stage. We propose a novel approach which is enticingly simple: use dropout at the input layer, and integrated gradients of the trained network at test-time to attribute feature importance dynamically. Results show that our proposed approach is more cost- and feature-efficient than prior approaches and achieves a higher overall accuracy.
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• Abstract: Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) algorithms in medicine provide patient-specific decision support for physicians. These algorithms are usually applied after full acquisition of high-dimensional multimodal examination data, and often assume feature-completeness. This, however, is rarely the case due to examination costs, invasiveness, or a lack of indication. A sub-problem in CADx, which to our knowledge has received very little attention among the CADx community so far, is to guide the physician during the entire peri-diagnostic workflow, including the acquisition stage. We model the following question, asked from a physician's perspective: "Given the evidence collected so far, which examination should I perform next, in order to achieve the most accurate and efficient diagnostic prediction?". In this work, we propose a novel approach which is enticingly simple: use dropout at the input layer, and integrated gradients of the trained network at test-time to attribute feature importance dynamically. We validate and explain the effectiveness of our proposed approach using two public medical and two synthetic datasets. Results show that our proposed approach is more cost- and feature-efficient than prior approaches and achieves a higher overall accuracy. This directly translates to less unnecessary examinations for patients, and a quicker, less costly and more accurate decision support for the physician.

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