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Algorithmic encoding of protected characteristics in chest X-ray disease detection models
12 Feb 2023
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BACKGROUND: It has been rightfully emphasized that the use of AI for clinical decision making could amplify health disparities. An algorithm may encode protected characteristics, and then use this information for making predictions due to undesirable correlations in the (historical) training data. It remains unclear how we can establish whether such information is actually used. Besides the scarcity of data from...
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