Predictably unequal: understanding and addressing concerns that algorithmic clinical prediction may increase health disparities

JK Paulus, DM Kent - NPJ digital medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The machine learning community has become alert to the ways that predictive algorithms
can inadvertently introduce unfairness in decision-making. Herein, we discuss how concepts …

An empirical characterization of fair machine learning for clinical risk prediction

SR Pfohl, A Foryciarz, NH Shah - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of machine learning to guide clinical decision making has the potential to worsen
existing health disparities. Several recent works frame the problem as that of algorithmic …

Algorithmic fairness in computational medicine

J Xu, Y Xiao, WH Wang, Y Ning, EA Shenkman… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Machine learning models are increasingly adopted for facilitating clinical decision-making.
However, recent research has shown that machine learning techniques may result in …

Ensuring fairness in machine learning to advance health equity

A Rajkomar, M Hardt, MD Howell… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Machine learning is used increasingly in clinical care to improve diagnosis, treatment
selection, and health system efficiency. Because machine-learning models learn from …

Algorithm fairness in ai for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, TY Chen, J Lipkova, JJ Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In the current development and deployment of many artificial intelligence (AI) systems in
healthcare, algorithm fairness is a challenging problem in delivering equitable care. Recent …

Algorithmic fairness in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, JJ Wang, DFK Williamson, TY Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial
intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models …

Machine learning and algorithmic fairness in public and population health

V Mhasawade, Y Zhao, R Chunara - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021 - nature.com
Until now, much of the work on machine learning and health has focused on processes
inside the hospital or clinic. However, this represents only a narrow set of tasks and …

Counterfactual reasoning for fair clinical risk prediction

SR Pfohl, T Duan, DY Ding… - Machine Learning for …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
The use of machine learning systems to support decision making in healthcare raises
questions as to what extent these systems may introduce or exacerbate disparities in care …

What's fair is… fair? Presenting JustEFAB, an ethical framework for operationalizing medical ethics and social justice in the integration of clinical machine learning …

M Mccradden, O Odusi, S Joshi, I Akrout… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The problem of algorithmic bias represents an ethical threat to the fair treatment of patients
when their care involves machine learning (ML) models informing clinical decision-making …

Why is my classifier discriminatory?

I Chen, FD Johansson… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent attempts to achieve fairness in predictive models focus on the balance between
fairness and accuracy. In sensitive applications such as healthcare or criminal justice, this …