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Today in "who saw that coming?": AI models miss disease in Black and female patients

Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger. When the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart. These disparities persisted when the team tested CheXzero using four other public data sets of chest x-rays from other regions, including Spain and Vietnam.

Science Advances: Demographic bias of expert-level vision-language foundation models in medical imaging Yuzhe Yang, Yujia Liu