Published online Mar 28, 2024. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v16.i3.69
Peer-review started: January 4, 2024
First decision: March 2, 2024
Revised: March 6, 2024
Accepted: March 14, 2024
Article in press: March 14, 2024
Published online: March 28, 2024
Processing time: 81 Days and 23.1 Hours
Artificial intelligence (AI) can sometimes resolve difficulties that other advanced technologies and humans cannot. In medical diagnostics, AI has the advantage of processing figure recognition, especially for images with similar characteristics that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. However, the mechanisms of this advanced technique should be well-addressed to elucidate clinical issues. In this letter, regarding an original study presented by Takayama et al, we suggest that the authors should effectively illustrate the mechanism and detailed procedure that artificial intelligence techniques processing the acquired images, including the recognition of non-obvious difference between the normal parts and pathological ones, which were impossible to be distinguished by naked eyes, such as the basic constitutional elements of pixels and grayscale, special molecules or even some metal ions which involved into the diseases occurrence.
Core Tip: We strengthened the importance of mechanism elucidation of the advanced artificial intelligence in processing figures recognition, especially for those images with very similar characteristics that are difficult to be distinguished by the naked eye, and expressed a caution on decision making by using artificial intelligence technique for medical use, in that the unidentified potential would result in a bias.