Evaluating the Safety of Deep Learning-Based Brain MRI Reconstruction

2026-08-28

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本文针对深度学习在脑MRI重建中可能引入的病变遗漏或虚假组织生成问题，通过系统性回顾263篇文献的方法评估现有评价方法的有效性。

Abstract

Objective: Deep learning accelerates brain MRI four- to tenfold, but models can erase lesions or synthesize false tissue - failures pixel-averaged metrics like PSNR and SSIM miss. We review whether current evaluation practices detect this blind spot. Methods: Following PRISMA 2020, we searched seven databases without date limits, including 263 studies (1995-2026), appraised them using QUADAS-2 and matched instruments, and synthesized narratively. Categories were derived from titles, abstracts, and controlled vocabulary; reported prevalence figures represent floors. Duplicate screening achieved high agreement (Fleiss kappa = 0.877), as did appraisal (0.788; 0.390 where observable). Extraction is unaudited. Results: Only 18 of 263 studies (6.8%) recorded both a fidelity metric and reader assessment on identical data, leaving the central surrogate unmeasured. Reader studies mostly measured inter-reader agreement, which was weak: fastMRI 2020 concordance reached 0.457 and 0.386 (Kendall W), improving only where SSIM diverged. Erasing a 100 mm3 lacunar infarct shifts global PSNR by 0.03 dB under the stated error model. As the corpus grew fivefold, reader assessments dropped from 32% to 18%, recovering to 21%. Generative models - most associated with hallucination (39%) - were among the least reader-evaluated (11.3%), while self-supervised models reached 47% with zero reader evaluation. Only 5% released code and ran reader studies; none evaluated a model observer; no named dataset covered acute stroke or hemorrhage. Conclusions: On these floors, current evaluation practices cannot certify diagnostic safety. We derive five requirements safety-oriented evaluations must meet.

Problem

• Deep Learning
• Brain MRI Reconstruction
• Safety Evaluation
• Lesion Erasure
• False Tissue Synthesis

Innovation

• Deep Learning
• Brain MRI Reconstruction
• Safety Evaluation
• Reader Assessment
• Fidelity Metric