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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers

2020-10-21

A study by the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and MIT showed the input databases that trained AI systems used to classify chest X-rays led the systems to show gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases.

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