CT and MRI have shown substantial increases in utilization across health care settings. Before a CT or MRI examination is performed, a radiologist (or other designated practitioner) protocols the examination. This task entails reviewing the imaging requisition and potentially additional information sources (e.g., the EMR), ensuring imaging appropriateness, selecting from a set of prespecified configurations of acquisition parameters, potentially prescribing modifications to these parameters, and considering safety issues (e.g., relating to renal insufficiency or contrast media allergies). Protocol selection includes determination of whether to use various forms of contrast media and, for studies using IV contrast media, the timing of the contrast-enhanced phases. This process directly influences examinations’ diagnostic yield. Protocoling remains resource-intensive and time-consuming. This study evaluated the performance of traditional ML models, BERT models, and LLMs for automated CT and MRI protocoling.
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