Understanding Racial Bias in Medical AI Training Data | Bill of Health
By Adriana Krasniansky Interest in artificially intelligent (AI) health care has grown at an astounding pace: the global AI health care market is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2025 and AI-powered systems are being designed to support medical activities ranging from patient diagnosis and…
AI-powered systems are being designed to support medical activities ranging from patient diagnosis and triaging to drug pricing. But when AI systems are trained on misrepresentative data sets they stand to develop discriminatory biases. Three case studies are explored that demonstrate the potential for racial bias in medical AI, including Melanoma Diagnosis and Diagnosis using Speech Recognition technologies.
