Interventional Radiology Reporting Standards and Checklist for Artificial Intelligence Research Evaluation (iCARE)
James Anibal, Hannah Huth, Tom Boeken, Dania Daye, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Fernando Gómez, Julius Chapiro, Bradford J. Wood, Daniel Y. Sze, Klaus A. Hausegger
Abstract
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly prevalent within interventional radiology (IR) research and clinical practice, steps must be taken to ensure the robustness of novel technological systems presented in peer-reviewed journals. This report introduces comprehensive standards and an evaluation checklist (iCARE) that covers the application of modern AI methods in IR-specific contexts. The iCARE checklist encompasses the full "code-to-clinic" pipeline of AI development, including dataset curation, pre-training, task-specific training, explainability, privacy protection, bias mitigation, reproducibility, and model deployment. The iCARE checklist aims to support the development of safe, generalizable technologies for enhancing IR workflows, the delivery of care, and patient outcomes.