Grader Variability and the Importance of Reference Standards for Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Diabetic Retinopathy
Jonathan Krause,Varun Gulshan,Ehsan Rahimy,Peter Karth,Kasumi Widner,Greg S. Corrado,Lily Peng,Dale R. Webster +7 more
TL;DR: Adjudication reduces the errors in DR grading by using a small number of adjudicated consensus grades as a tuning dataset and higher-resolution images as input, and to train an improved automated algorithm for DR grading.
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Table 4. Comparison of ophthalmologist grades versus adjudicated grades from retina specialists on the validation dataset. Confusion matrix for diabetic retinopathy and DME between the grade determined by majority decision of the ophthalmologists and the adjudicated consensus of retinal specialists. 
Table 5. Agreement between ophthalmologists’ grades with the adjudicated reference standard on the validation dataset. Sensitivity and specificity metrics are for moderate or worse DR and referable DME for each grader. Agreement between the adjudicated grade and the 5-point scale is also measured by the quadratic-weighted kappa. 
Table 3. Agreement between each retina specialist and the adjudicated reference standard on the validation dataset. Retina specialists correspond to those who contributed to the final adjudicated reference standard. Sensitivity and specificity metrics reported are for moderate or worse DR. Agreement between the preadjudication 5-point DR grade and the final adjudicated grade is also measured by the quadratic-weighted kappa. 
Table 2. Comparison of retinal specialist grades before and after adjudication on the validation dataset. Confusion matrix for diabetic retinopathy between the grade determined by majority decision and adjudicated consensus. 
Fig. 1. Grader agreement based on the adjudicated consensus grade for referable diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME). Independent grading of all 3 retinal specialists and all 3 ophthalmologists are included in this analysis. 
Fig. 2. Image resolution input to model versus area under the curve (AUC) for mild and above DR. Left: Using majority decision of retinal specialists as the reference standard. Right: Using the adjudicated consensus grade of retinal specialists as a reference standard. Shaded areas represent a 95% confidence interval as measured via bootstrapping.
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