News AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
News AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Apr 1 2025, 7:07 PM
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients
Quote:An artificial intelligence model commonly used to detect disease from chest x-rays misses conditions in Black women more often than it does in other populations.
Quote:Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger. When the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart. These disparities persisted when the team tested CheXzero using four other public data sets of chest x-rays from other regions, including Spain and Vietnam.
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March 26 2025, Science
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients
Quote:An artificial intelligence model commonly used to detect disease from chest x-rays misses conditions in Black women more often than it does in other populations.
Quote:Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger. When the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart. These disparities persisted when the team tested CheXzero using four other public data sets of chest x-rays from other regions, including Spain and Vietnam.
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