Drivers of physician trust in AI-based decision support systems in medical decision making
- AI has recently become a huge topic in many domains, including the healthcare environment. In radiology physicians have to make many decisions every day, analyzing medical images and choosing the right treatments for each individual patient. In order to help them with this workload there has been a lot of development to create AI based recommender systems that will assist the medical professionals. But with promising advancements also comes great responsibility and new challenges. In the following I try to assess how the use of AI in medical decision making might impact the trust of the physicians in such tools. My central research question is in how far AI-based medical decision support systems impact physicians, if for example certain factors make them more or less likely to trust the AI and heed its advice. Responsibly and properly integrating AI in medical processes is a task that needs to be taken seriously. Moral and ethical aspects of developments in this area should be taken into consideration to ensure the safe use ofAI has recently become a huge topic in many domains, including the healthcare environment. In radiology physicians have to make many decisions every day, analyzing medical images and choosing the right treatments for each individual patient. In order to help them with this workload there has been a lot of development to create AI based recommender systems that will assist the medical professionals. But with promising advancements also comes great responsibility and new challenges. In the following I try to assess how the use of AI in medical decision making might impact the trust of the physicians in such tools. My central research question is in how far AI-based medical decision support systems impact physicians, if for example certain factors make them more or less likely to trust the AI and heed its advice. Responsibly and properly integrating AI in medical processes is a task that needs to be taken seriously. Moral and ethical aspects of developments in this area should be taken into consideration to ensure the safe use of AI.
The aim of this thesis will be to identify and assess factors that might influence physicians’ trust when using AI-based decision support systems. Since AI is rather new in this area it is not clear yet which factors of using AI decision support systems might change the trust that physicians have in these systems. But we can only work with these changes and influences if we are aware of them. Upon identifying them there is a need to investigate in what way they influence physicians. Once this is clear the next step will be to find out how these influences can be avoided or mitigated in order to ensure a beneficial use of AI in medical decision making.
This thesis will be based on already published academic papers. The combined knowledge and insights of these papers will be compared, critically reviewed and combined to come to new conclusions.…
Author: | Celina Weisberger |
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Language: | English |
Document Type: | Bachelor Thesis |
Reviewer(s) at THI: | Matthias Uhl, Marc Aubreville |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt |
Date of first Publication: | 2024/03/26 |
Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
Place of publication: | Ingolstadt |
Pages: | 45, XVI |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-47466 |
Faculties / Institutes / Organizations: | Fakultät Informatik |
Degree Programmes: | Computational Life Sciences (B. Sc.) |
Licence (German): | ![]() |
Release Date: | 2024/05/21 |