AI Medical Imaging Personalization via User Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current AI systems for medical imaging analysis lack personalization to user preferences, leading to user acceptance challenges due to regional differences in training data and expert annotations.

Innovation Solution

The system personalizes AI for medical imaging by retraining it based on user feedback, using input medical images and validation datasets to generate a user-specific AI system that improves performance and acceptance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If AI systems are trained with annotated training data from experts with different preferences and regional differences, then the AI system can perform medical imaging analysis tasks, but user acceptance of the AI system decreases due to mismatch with local user preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAI system adaptability to user preferencesVSAvoiduser acceptance of AI results
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The AI system transitions from a static, fixed model to a dynamic, adaptive system that continuously learns from user feedback. The system automatically adjusts its parameters and decision boundaries based on individual user preferences and regional characteristics, enabling it to adapt to different usage contexts without requiring manual retraining for each user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions with AI-generated results are captured and used to refine the model. By analyzing user acceptance, rejection, and correction patterns, the system iteratively improves its performance for each individual user, resolving the contradiction between general training data and specific user preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If AI systems are made personalized to individual users through continuous retraining, then user acceptance and efficiency improve, but system complexity and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of AI system operation for usersVSAvoidAI system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The AI system performs self-learning and self-adjustment without requiring external intervention for each personalization step. The automated feedback loop enables the system to independently process user interactions, update its parameters, and optimize its performance for each user, eliminating the need for manual model customization while reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages complexity by dynamically adjusting model parameters based on accumulated user feedback rather than requiring structural changes to the overall system architecture. This allows personalization through parameter optimization within existing frameworks, maintaining ease of operation while controlling computational resource requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4404207A1Automatic personalization of ai systems for medical imaging analysis
Publication Date: 2024.07.24 SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
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AI summary

Systems and methods for personalizing an AI (artificial intelligence) system for medical imaging analysis are provided. One or more input medical images are received. A medical imaging analysis task is performed on the one or more input medical images using a trained AI system. Feedback on results of the medical imaging analysis task is received from a user. The trained AI system is retrained based on the feedback to generate a user-specific AI system for the user. The user-specific AI system is validated. The validated user-specific AI system is output.