학술논문

Assessing Trustworthy AI in Times of COVID-19: Deep Learning for Predicting a Multiregional Score Conveying the Degree of Lung Compromise in COVID-19 Patients
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society IEEE Trans. Technol. Soc. Technology and Society, IEEE Transactions on. 3(4):272-289 Dec, 2022
Subject
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Artificial intelligence
COVID-19
Pandemics
Medical services
Ethics
Radiology
Lung
Deep learning
case study
ethical tradeoff
ethics
explainable AI
healthcare
pandemic
radiology
trust
trustworthy AI
Z-Inspection®
Language
ISSN
2637-6415
Abstract
This article’s main contributions are twofold: 1) to demonstrate how to apply the general European Union’s High-Level Expert Group’s (EU HLEG) guidelines for trustworthy AI in practice for the domain of healthcare and 2) to investigate the research question of what does “trustworthy AI” mean at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we present the results of a post-hoc self-assessment to evaluate the trustworthiness of an AI system for predicting a multiregional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients, developed and verified by an interdisciplinary team with members from academia, public hospitals, and industry in time of pandemic. The AI system aims to help radiologists to estimate and communicate the severity of damage in a patient’s lung from Chest X-rays. It has been experimentally deployed in the radiology department of the ASST Spedali Civili clinic in Brescia, Italy, since December 2020 during pandemic time. The methodology we have applied for our post-hoc assessment, called Z-Inspection®, uses sociotechnical scenarios to identify ethical, technical, and domain-specific issues in the use of the AI system in the context of the pandemic.