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Re:ML model can classify sex from retinal photograph, clinic... by m463 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:40AM (#27171274)
I read somewhere that an ML model could detect cancerous tumors, but it was keying off the ruler used to measure tumor size.
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Re:ML model can classify sex from retinal photograph, clinic... by stevelosh on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:24AM (#27171639)
Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...

> For instance, in our work, we noted that the algorithm appeared more likely to interpret images with rulers as malignant. Why? In our dataset, images with rulers were more likely to be malignant; thus the algorithm inadvertently “learned” that rulers are malignant.

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