Best Practices and Checklist for Reviewing Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Imaging Papers: Classification.

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies and their application to medical imaging has led to an explosion of related research programs utilizing AI to produce state-of-the-art classification performance. Ideally, research culminates in dissemination of the findings in peer-revie...

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Published in:Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 1041 - 1052
Main Authors: Kline, Timothy L., Kitamura, Felipe, Warren, Daniel, Pan, Ian, Korchi, Amine M., Tenenholtz, Neil, Moy, Linda, Gichoya, Judy Wawira, Santos, Igor, Moradi, Kamyar, Avval, Atlas Haddadi, Alkhulaifat, Dana, Blumer, Steven L., Hwang, Misha Ysabel, Git, Kim-Ann, Shroff, Abishek, Stember, Joseph, Walach, Elad, Shih, George, Langer, Steve G.
Format: tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2026
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          Kitamura, Felipe
          Warren, Daniel
          Pan, Ian
          Korchi, Amine M.
          Tenenholtz, Neil
          Moy, Linda
          Gichoya, Judy Wawira
          Santos, Igor
          Moradi, Kamyar
          Avval, Atlas Haddadi
          Alkhulaifat, Dana
          Blumer, Steven L.
          Hwang, Misha Ysabel
          Git, Kim-Ann
          Shroff, Abishek
          Stember, Joseph
          Walach, Elad
          Shih, George
          Langer, Steve G.
        affil: https://ror.org/02qp3tb03 Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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          Artificial Intelligence Utilization
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Classification
          Diagnostic Imaging
          Checklists
          Machine Learning
          Data Curation
          Software
          Deep Learning
          Reproducibility of Results
          Manuscripts
          Privacy and Confidentiality
          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted
          Sensitivity and Specificity
      ab: Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies and their application to medical imaging has led to an explosion of related research programs utilizing AI to produce state-of-the-art classification performance. Ideally, research culminates in dissemination of the findings in peer-reviewed journals. To date, acceptance or rejection criteria are often subjective; however, reproducible science requires reproducible review. The Machine Learning Education Sub-Committee of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has identified a knowledge gap and need to establish guidelines for reviewing these studies. This present work, written from the machine learning practitioner standpoint, follows a similar approach to our previous paper related to segmentation. In this series, the committee will address best practices to follow in AI-based studies and present the required sections with examples and discussion of requirements to make the studies cohesive, reproducible, accurate, and self-contained. This entry in the series focuses on image classification. Elements like dataset curation, data pre-processing steps, reference standard identification, data partitioning, model architecture, and training are discussed. Sections are presented as in a typical manuscript. The content describes the information necessary to ensure the study is of sufficient quality for publication consideration and, compared with other checklists, provides a focused approach with application to image classification tasks. The goal of this series is to provide resources to not only help improve the review process for AI-based medical imaging papers, but to facilitate a standard for the information that should be presented within all components of the research study.
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