Fig. 4: Scenarios 2 and 3: Prediction alignment over time under continuous acquisition shift. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Scenarios 2 and 3: Prediction alignment over time under continuous acquisition shift.

From: Automatic correction of performance drift under acquisition shift in medical image classification

Fig. 4

Each simulation is repeated 250 times, solid lines depict the average difference between sensitivity and specificity across all bootstrap samples and shaded regions denote the 5%-95% percentile bootstrap confidence interval. Plots in the left column depict the number of scans processed by scanner A and scanner B over time for each scenario. Plots in the middle column compare the evolution of the sensitivity-specificity balance over time with and without applying UPA across all scans. The right-most two columns compare the evolution of the SEN/SPC balance scanner-wise. The goal is to avoid a drift between sensitivity and specificity in the presence of a gradual acquisition shift. The proposed method successfully maintains a null difference between sensitivity and specificity over time, whereas the non-adapted model can lead to dramatic shifts in the sensitivity-specificity balance. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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