Metrics to guide development of machine learning algorithms for malaria diagnosis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06947v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 01:23:29 GMT
• Title: Metrics to guide development of machine learning algorithms for malaria diagnosis
• Authors: Charles B. Delahunt, Noni Gachuhi, Matthew P. Horning
• Abstract summary: Automated malaria diagnosis is a difficult but high-value target for machine learning (ML) Current ML efforts largely neglect crucial use case constraints and are thus not clinically useful.
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• Abstract: Automated malaria diagnosis is a difficult but high-value target for machine learning (ML), and effective algorithms could save many thousands of children's lives. However, current ML efforts largely neglect crucial use case constraints and are thus not clinically useful. Two factors in particular are crucial to developing algorithms translatable to clinical field settings: (i) Clear understanding of the clinical needs that ML solutions must accommodate; and (ii) task-relevant metrics for guiding and evaluating ML models. Neglect of these factors has seriously hampered past ML work on malaria, because the resulting algorithms do not align with clinical needs. In this paper we address these two issues in the context of automated malaria diagnosis via microscopy on Giemsa-stained blood films. First, we describe why domain expertise is crucial to effectively apply ML to malaria, and list technical documents and other resources that provide this domain knowledge. Second, we detail performance metrics tailored to the clinical requirements of malaria diagnosis, to guide development of ML models and evaluate model performance through the lens of clinical needs (versus a generic ML lens). We highlight the importance of a patient-level perspective, interpatient variability, false positive rates, limit of detection, and different types of error. We also discuss reasons why ROC curves, AUC, and F1, as commonly used in ML work, are poorly suited to this context. These findings also apply to other diseases involving parasite loads, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as schistosomiasis.

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