CheXclusion: Fairness gaps in deep chest X-ray classifiers

• Published in: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Vol. 26; p. 232
• Main Authors: Seyyed-Kalantari, Laleh, Liu, Guanxiong, McDermott, Matthew, Chen, Irene Y, Ghassemi, Marzyeh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 2021
• Subjects: Computational Biology; Humans; Machine Learning; Neural Networks, Computer; X-Rays

Machine learning systems have received much attention recently for their ability to achieve expert-level performance on clinical tasks, particularly in medical imaging. Here, we examine the extent to which state-of-the-art deep learning classifiers trained to yield diagnostic labels from X-ray image...