Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Dec 5, 2021
Date Accepted: Mar 15, 2022
Date Submitted to PubMed: Mar 17, 2022
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
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Artificial Intelligence: 20 years of contributions reported in Obstetrics and Gynecology journals
ABSTRACT
The objective of this study was to provide a systematic review to establish the actual contributions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) reported in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OG/GYN) discipline journals. All publications in OB/GYN core disciplines journals were considered among citations indexed in PubMed with “artificial intelligence” and at least one of the following MeSH terms: "obstetrics", “gynecology”, “reproductive techniques, assisted” or "pregnancy", between 01/01/2000 and 04/30/2020. Publications with application of AI processes were selected and mapped to OB/GYN domains. We reviewed all AI methods, algorithms, datasets, contributions and validation methods. Our PubMed search retrieved 579 citations and 66 publications met the selection criteria. Both Machine Learning methods (n=39/66) and Knowledge Base methods (n=25/66) were represented. Machine Learning used imaging, numerical and clinical datasets. Knowledge Base methods used mostly omics datasets. Contributions of AI were method/algorithm development (53%), hypothesis generation (42%) or software development (3%). Validation was performed on only 1 dataset in most cases (87%) and no external validation was reported. Overall, in journals of our discipline, preliminary work in AI applied to OB/GYN is reported and clinical validation remains an unmet prerequisite. Improvement driven by new AI research guidelines is expected. However, these guidelines are covering only a part of AI approaches reported in this review, hence updates need to be considered.
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