Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Automated Protocoling of Emergency Brain MRI Using Text from Clinical Referrals.

Purpose To develop and evaluate machine learning and deep learning-based models for automated protocoling of emergency brain MRI scans based on clinical referral text. Materials and Methods In this single-institution, retrospective study of 1953 emergency brain MRI referrals from January 2016 to January 2019, two neuroradiologists labeled the imaging protocol and use of contrast agent as the reference standard. Three machine learning algorithms (Naïve Bayes, support vector machine, and XGBoost) and two pretrained deep learning models (Finnish BERT and GPT-3.