DeepCOVID-XR, an artificial intelligence algorithm for detecting COVID-19 on chest radiographs, demonstrated performance similar to the consensus of experienced thoracic radiologists. Key Results: • DeepCOVID-XR classified 2,214 test images (1,194 COVID-19 positive) with an accuracy of 83% and AUC of 0.90 compared with the reference standard of RT-PCR. • On 300 random test images (134 COVID-19 positive), DeepCOVID-XR's accuracy was 82% (AUC 0.88) compared to 5 individual thoracic radiologists (accuracy 76%-81%) and the consensus of all 5 radiologists (accuracy 81%, AUC 0.85). • Using the consensus interpretation of the radiologists as the reference standard, DeepCOVID-XR's AUC was 0.95. Abbreviations: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), artificial intelligence (AI), area under the curve (AUC), receiver operating characteristic (ROC), convolutional neural network (CNN) See also the editorial by van Ginneken.
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