Addressing fairness issues in deep learning-based medical image analysis: a systematic review

Z Xu, J Li, Q Yao, H Li, M Zhao, SK Zhou - npj Digital Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning algorithms have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in various medical image
analysis (MedIA) applications. However, recent research highlights a performance disparity …

Challenges and Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Neuroradiology

AJ Winder, EAM Stanley, J Fiehler, ND Forkert - Clinical Neuroradiology, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in medical
research and is garnering increased attention in the public consciousness. This represents a …

Towards objective and systematic evaluation of bias in artificial intelligence for medical imaging

EAM Stanley, R Souza, AJ Winder… - Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objective Artificial intelligence (AI) models trained using medical images for clinical tasks
often exhibit bias in the form of subgroup performance disparities. However, since not all …

Enhancing the fairness of AI prediction models by Quasi-Pareto improvement among heterogeneous thyroid nodule population

S Yao, F Dai, P Sun, W Zhang, B Qian, H Lu - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for medical diagnosis often face challenges of
generalizability and fairness. We highlighted the algorithmic unfairness in a large thyroid …

Where, why, and how is bias learned in medical image analysis models? A study of bias encoding within convolutional networks using synthetic data

EAM Stanley, R Souza, M Wilms, ND Forkert - EBioMedicine, 2025 - thelancet.com
Background Understanding the mechanisms of algorithmic bias is highly challenging due to
the complexity and uncertainty of how various unknown sources of bias impact deep …

How Fair are Medical Imaging Foundation Models?

MO Khan, MM Afzal, S Mirza… - Machine Learning for …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
While medical imaging foundation models have led to significant improvements across
various tasks, the pivotal issue of subgroup fairness in these foundation models has …

(Predictable) performance bias in unsupervised anomaly detection

F Meissen, S Breuer, M Knolle, A Buyx, R Müller… - Ebiomedicine, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background With the ever-increasing amount of medical imaging data, the demand for
algorithms to assist clinicians has amplified. Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) models …

A Flexible Framework for Simulating and Evaluating Biases in Deep Learning-Based Medical Image Analysis

EAM Stanley, M Wilms, ND Forkert - International Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Despite the remarkable advances in deep learning for medical image analysis, it has
become evident that biases in datasets used for training such models pose considerable …

Identifying biases in a multicenter MRI database for Parkinson's disease classification: Is the disease classifier a secret site classifier?

R Souza, A Winder, EAM Stanley… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharing multicenter imaging datasets can be advantageous to increase data diversity and
size but may lead to spurious correlations between site-related biological and non-biological …

SMOTE-MRS: A Novel SMOTE-Multiresolution Sampling technique for imbalanced distribution to improve prediction of anemia

DCE Saputra, K Sunat, T Ratnaningsih - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Anemia is a widespread worldwide health problem that has a substantial effect on groups
who are particularly susceptible. The objective of this work is to improve the diagnosis of …