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Re:.98 AUC classifying race from chest x-rays (external vali... by pvitz on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:40AM (#28126817)
If one only trains the model to correctly identify a disease (e.g. maximising the correct identification and minimising the error), then there is no space for the model to be "racist". I don't question that there is a signal inside the images, but someone has to change the model and training to then maliciously use that information.
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