WF-6QSTUT
Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
A study by the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and MIT showed the input databases that trained AI systems used to classify chest X-rays led the systems to show gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases.
- Date it happened
- 2020-10-21
- Organisation involved
- Mount Sinai Hospitals
- Product, system or model
- A chest x-ray classifier developed for research purposes.
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