[HTML][HTML] Algorithmic encoding of protected characteristics in chest X-ray disease detection models

B Glocker, C Jones, M Bernhardt, S Winzeck - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
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 …

CheXclusion: Fairness gaps in deep chest X-ray classifiers

L Seyyed-Kalantari, G Liu, M McDermott… - … 2021: proceedings of …, 2020 - World Scientific
Machine learning systems have received much attention recently for their ability to achieve
expert-level performance on clinical tasks, particularly in medical imaging. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Underdiagnosis bias of artificial intelligence algorithms applied to chest radiographs in under-served patient populations

L Seyyed-Kalantari, H Zhang, MBA McDermott… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in
medical imaging applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may …

Predicting patient demographics from chest radiographs with deep learning

J Adleberg, A Wardeh, FX Doo, B Marinelli… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Deep learning models are increasingly informing medical decision making, for
instance, in the detection of acute intracranial hemorrhage and pulmonary embolism …

Risk of bias in chest radiography deep learning foundation models

B Glocker, C Jones, M Roschewitz… - Radiology: Artificial …, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To analyze a recently published chest radiography foundation model for the
presence of biases that could lead to subgroup performance disparities across biologic sex …

Debiasing deep chest x-ray classifiers using intra-and post-processing methods

R Marcinkevics, E Ozkan… - Machine Learning for …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Deep neural networks for image-based screening and computer-aided diagnosis have
achieved expert-level performance on various medical imaging modalities, including chest …

When more is less: Incorporating additional datasets can hurt performance by introducing spurious correlations

R Compton, L Zhang, A Puli… - Machine Learning for …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
In machine learning, incorporating more data is often seen as a reliable strategy for
improving model performance; this work challenges that notion by demonstrating that the …

Improving the fairness of chest x-ray classifiers

H Zhang, N Dullerud, K Roth… - … on health, inference …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Deep learning models have reached or surpassed human-level performance in the field of
medical imaging, especially in disease diagnosis using chest x-rays. However, prior work …

CheXpedition: Investigating generalization challenges for translation of chest X-ray algorithms to the clinical setting

P Rajpurkar, A Joshi, A Pareek, P Chen, A Kiani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Although there have been several recent advances in the application of deep learning
algorithms to chest x-ray interpretation, we identify three major challenges for the translation …

Quantifying and leveraging classification uncertainty for chest radiograph assessment

FC Ghesu, B Georgescu, E Gibson, S Guendel… - … Image Computing and …, 2019 - Springer
The interpretation of chest radiographs is an essential task for the detection of thoracic
diseases and abnormalities. However, it is a challenging problem with high inter-rater …