Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?

Medicine and the Machine

An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Judy Gichoya, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35568690/

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