Evaluating the clinical utility of artificial intelligence assistance and its explanation on the glioma grading task

Weina Jin, Mostafa Fatehi, Ru Guo, Ghassan Hamarneh

Abstract: Highlights•A clinical evaluation of the utility of AI assistance and its explanation to clinicians.•Clinicians improved their task performances with the assistance of AI prediction.•With the assistance of AI prediction, clinicians’ decision patterns converged to AI’s patterns.•Clinicians’ task performance did not improve with the additional support of AI explanation.•AI explanations of heatmaps lack clinically relevant information on feature description.