Making the invisible visible: An automated clinical decision support tool for Intimate Partner Violence Risk and Severity Prediction (AIRS)

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Project Abstract This project is focused on developing an automated clinical decision support tool for predicting Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) risk and severity based on historical imaging and clinical data. Despite the high prevalence and urgency of this critical public health issue, there is currently no objective tool to diagnose IPV. The challenges in detecting IPV in the health care setting are due to multiple factors, including the patient’s feelings of shame and fear of consequences and physician’s lack of awareness and fear of offending the patient and partner. While imaging plays an essential role in diagnosing nonaccidental trauma in children because of clear well- established patterns of abuse on imaging studies, a lack of evidence-based research on IPV related imaging patterns has led to under-recognition and underdiagnosis of IPV. By recognizing location and imaging patterns specific to IPV on current and previous radiological studies, radiologists can help identify IPV when the victims are not forthcoming. Our hypothesis is that a multidimensional clinical support tool including imaging and clinical findings harvested from the electronic medical record can provide an accurate and comprehensive calculation of IPV risk. The automated IPV risk and severity predictions can then be integrated to transform the care plan for survivors and make the “invisible” visible. Aim 1: To define IPV related imaging patterns and severity by analyzing radiological studies of known IPV survivors and matched controls Aim 2: To determine IPV risk and severity prediction by developing a clinical decision support tool derived from historical imaging and clinical predictors. Aim 3: To validate the IPV prediction model on new datasets and evaluate the integration of results in radiology workflow using a safe repository. If our hypotheses are correct, established IPV related imaging patterns, a CDS tool derived from historical imaging and clinical predictors integrated into clinical care will be able to diagnose IPV objectively.