Association of biomarker-based AI with risk of racial bias in retinal images

JAMA Ophthalmology

2023-05-04

(Press-News.org) About The Study: Results of this diagnostic study including 4,095 retinal fundus images collected from 245 neonates suggest that it can be very challenging to remove information relevant to self-reported race from fundus photographs. As a result, AI algorithms trained on fundus photographs have the potential for biased performance in practice, even if based on biomarkers rather than raw images. Regardless of the methodology used for training AI, evaluating performance in relevant subpopulations is critical.

Authors: J. Peter Campbell, M.D., M.P.H., of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, is the corresponding author.

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