Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2022
Researchers have been able to train a deep learning model to accurately predict a patient’s race from just medical images, like X-rays and CT scans leaving researchers confused, reported the Boston Globe May 13.
In the study published in The Lancet Digital Health May 11, the researchers showed the machine learning program a large number of X-rays and CT scans that were labeled with the patient’s race. The system was then asked the race of unlabeled sets of pictures, and was able to with an over 90 percent accuracy.
“When my graduate students showed me some of the results...
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