Health IT Analytics May 18, 2022
New research shows that artificial intelligence can accurately predict race using various medical images, but clinicians cannot do the same, indicating significant risks for AI use in healthcare.
Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can accurately detect self-reported racial identity using medical images, but the mechanisms they use to do so are unclear to researchers, indicating that models already in use may accidentally exacerbate health disparities.
According to a study published in The Lancet Digital Health, research has shown that the ability of AI to detect a person’s race using medical images is well documented, but there are no clear image-based variables or proxies to race present in the images that would allow clinicians to do the...
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