Confounders mediate AI prediction of demographics in medical imaging

Abstract Deep learning has been shown to accurately assess “hidden” phenotypes from medical imaging beyond traditional clinician interpretation. Using large echocardiography datasets from two healthcare systems, we test whether it is possible to predict age, race, and sex from cardiac ultrasound ima...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grant Duffy, Shoa L. Clarke, Matthew Christensen, Bryan He, Neal Yuan, Susan Cheng, David Ouyang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:npj Digital Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00720-8