Medical AI can detect the racial identity of patients from x-rays. This is extremely concerning, and raises urgent questions about how we test medical AI systems.
Tag: radiology
CT scanning is just awful for diagnosing Covid-19
Reports that CT scanning may be better than PCR testing for covid-19 are flawed and almost certainly wrong.
Half a million x-rays! First impressions of the Stanford and MIT chest x-ray datasets
My first impressions of these datasets. How do they measure up, and how useful might they be?
Medical AI Safety: Doing it wrong.
Medical AI has a safety problem; we know for a fact our testing isn't reliable. We've seen how this plays out before.
CheXNet: an in-depth review
Since the CheXNet paper came out in November 2017 I have been communicating with the author team. I'm finally ready to review the paper. Some of the things I found out surprised me.
The End of Human Doctors – The Bleeding Edge of Medical AI Research (Part 3)
Today I want to look at two papers which tell us something very useful about medical AI, particularly if we are trying to predict the future of medicine.
Interested in radiology or research?
Just a quick note: If you are in South Australia and you are interested in radiology or research, or even radiology research, feel free to contact me. I can answer any questions you have or maybe even connect you with researchers who need help. And if anyone is willing to give me feedback on my teaching materials, … Continue reading Interested in radiology or research?