AI bias Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/ai-bias/ Healthcare technology news, life science current events Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:35:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://medcitynews.com/uploads/2021/03/cropped-mblue-32x32.png AI bias Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/ai-bias/ 32 32 40682243 How Health Tech is Squashing AI Biases and Leveling the Playing Field in Healthcare https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/how-health-tech-is-squashing-ai-biases-and-leveling-the-playing-field-in-healthcare/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/how-health-tech-is-squashing-ai-biases-and-leveling-the-playing-field-in-healthcare/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:35:30 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=645486

By making large amounts of diverse data widely available, healthcare institutions can feel confident about the evaluation, creation, and validation of algorithms as they’re transitioned from ideation to use.

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Research conducted by the MIT Media Lab and Scale AI found that lighter skin tones vastly outnumber darker skin tones in the two of the most widely used dermatology atlases. This led to disparities in an AI model’s ability to diagnose skin conditions involving darker skin tones. 

]]> https://medcitynews.com/2021/07/study-shows-skewed-dermatological-datasets-result-in-less-accurate-models/feed/ 0 541100 Nvidia’s plan to take the ‘anxiety’ out of AI’s use in radiology https://medcitynews.com/2019/04/nvidias-plan-to-take-the-anxiety-out-of-ais-use-in-radiology/ https://medcitynews.com/2019/04/nvidias-plan-to-take-the-anxiety-out-of-ais-use-in-radiology/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:04:26 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=455045 machine learning AI

A new partnership between Nvidia and the American College of Radiology will give a wider range of clinicians the ability to build, share and adapt their own AI models.

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