A causal perspective on dataset bias in machine learning for medical imaging

C Jones, DC Castro, F De Sousa Ribeiro… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
As machine learning methods gain prominence within clinical decision-making, the need to
address fairness concerns becomes increasingly urgent. Despite considerable work …

The path toward equal performance in medical machine learning

E Petersen, S Holm, M Ganz, A Feragen - Patterns, 2023 - cell.com
To ensure equitable quality of care, differences in machine learning model performance
between patient groups must be addressed. Here, we argue that two separate mechanisms …

Assaying out-of-distribution generalization in transfer learning

F Wenzel, A Dittadi, P Gehler… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Since out-of-distribution generalization is a generally ill-posed problem, various proxy
targets (eg, calibration, adversarial robustness, algorithmic corruptions, invariance across …

MEDFAIR: Benchmarking fairness for medical imaging

Y Zong, Y Yang, T Hospedales - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.01725, 2022 - arxiv.org
A multitude of work has shown that machine learning-based medical diagnosis systems can
be biased against certain subgroups of people. This has motivated a growing number of …

Fairclip: Harnessing fairness in vision-language learning

Y Luo, M Shi, MO Khan, MM Afzal… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Fairness is a critical concern in deep learning especially in healthcare where these models
influence diagnoses and treatment decisions. Although fairness has been investigated in the …

Fairtune: Optimizing parameter efficient fine tuning for fairness in medical image analysis

R Dutt, O Bohdal, SA Tsaftaris… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Training models with robust group fairness properties is crucial in ethically sensitive
application areas such as medical diagnosis. Despite the growing body of work aiming to …

Responsible and regulatory conform machine learning for medicine: a survey of challenges and solutions

E Petersen, Y Potdevin, E Mohammadi… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning is expected to fuel significant improvements in medical care. To ensure
that fundamental principles such as beneficence, respect for human autonomy, prevention of …

A novel approach for bias mitigation of gender classification algorithms using consistency regularization

A Krishnan, A Rattani - Image and Vision Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Published research has confirmed the bias of automated face-based gender classification
algorithms across gender-racial groups. Specifically, unequal accuracy rates were obtained …

The limits of fair medical imaging AI in real-world generalization

Y Yang, H Zhang, JW Gichoya, D Katabi… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly approaches human-level performance in medical
imaging, it is crucial that it does not exacerbate or propagate healthcare disparities. Previous …

Fairgrad: Fairness aware gradient descent

G Maheshwari, M Perrot - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10923, 2022 - arxiv.org
We tackle the problem of group fairness in classification, where the objective is to learn
models that do not unjustly discriminate against subgroups of the population. Most existing …