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Considering Biased Data as Informative Artifacts in AI-Assisted Health Care

Kadija Ferryman, Maxine Mackintosh, Marzyeh Ghassemi

2023New England Journal of Medicine113 citationsDOI

Abstract

Medical AI tools that are trained on skewed data may exhibit bias. The authors discuss how thinking of clinical data as artifacts can identify values, practices, and patterns of inequity in health care.

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Health carePsychologyData scienceHealth dataComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePolitical scienceLawArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMachine Learning in HealthcareHealthcare cost, quality, practices