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Some Ethical Remarks on Deep Learning-Based Movements Monitoring for Preterm Infants: Green AI or Red AI?

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Abstract

Preterm infants’ spontaneous movements monitoring is a valuable ally to early recognise neuro-motor impairments, especially common in infants born before term. Currently, highly-specialized clinicians assess the movements quality on the basis of subjective, discontinuous, and time-consuming observations. To support clinicians, automatic monitoring systems have been developed, among which Deep Learning algorithms (mainly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)) are up-to-date the most suitable and less invasive ones. Indeed, research in this field has devised highly reliable models, but has shown a tendency to neglect their computational costs. In fact, these models usually require massive computations, which, in turn, require expensive hardware and are environmentally unsustainable. As a consequence, the costs of these models risk to make their application to the actual clinical practice a privilege. However, the ultimate goal of research, especially in healthcare, should be designing technologies that are fairly accessible to as many people as possible. In light of this, this work analyzes three CNNs for preterm infants’ movements monitoring on the basis of their computational requirements. The two best-performing networks achieve very similar accuracy (Dice Similarity Coefficient around 0.88) although one of them, which was designed by us following the principles of Green AI, requires half as many Floating Point Operations (\(47\times 10^9\) vs \(101\times 10^9\)). Our research show that it is possible to design highly-performing and cost-efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for clinical applications .

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Notes

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    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/preterm-birth.

  2. 2.

    https://www.sin-neonatologia.it/covid-neonati-dati-registro-sin-confermano-aumento-nascite-premature/.

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    Throughout the paper, the word “fairness” will always refer to distributive fairness in the discussed algorithms. To expand different dimensions of fairness that can be promoted via AI technology, see G. Tiribelli (2022) [6].

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    The FLOPs were computed with a dedicated Python package, available at https://github.com/tokusumi/keras-flops.

  5. 5.

    Model compression can be applied on any Artificial Neural Network, but for the sake of consistency we only refer CNNs.

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Cacciatore, A., Migliorelli, L., Berardini, D., Tiribelli, S., Pigliapoco, S., Moccia, S. (2022). Some Ethical Remarks on Deep Learning-Based Movements Monitoring for Preterm Infants: Green AI or Red AI?. In: Mazzeo, P.L., Frontoni, E., Sclaroff, S., Distante, C. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops. ICIAP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13374. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13324-4_15

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