Health Equity

AI systems are worse at diagnosing disease when training data is skewed by sex

Abstract: New research points to an issue AI researchers are increasingly worried about: Training systems on data skewed by sex could make them less accurate.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: May 25, 2020

Author(s): Rebecca Robbins

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