AI/ML bias identification and mitigation in medical image analysis.

An overview for medical imaging AI/ML researchers and others.

Brought to you by the MIDRC bias and diversity working group.

Last updated August 31, 2024

Credit: MIDRC bias and diversity working group


Selected literature

Selected code

  • NIH’s NCATS challenged participants to create a solution that detects bias in AI/ML models used in clinical decisions. Note that the provided solutions were not necessarily directly related to medical imaging.

    url: https://www.expeditionhacks.com/nih-bias-detection-gallery

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MIDRC-developed code

  • he MIDRC Diversity Calculator is a tool designed to compare the representativeness of biomedical data. By leveraging the Jensen-Shannon distance (JSD) measure, this tool provides insights into the demographic representativeness of datasets within the biomedical field. It also supports monitoring the representativeness of datasets over time by assessing the representativeness of historical data. Developed and utilized by MIDRC, this tool assesses the representativeness of data within the open data commons to the US population. Additionally, it can be generalized by users for other diversity representativeness needs, such as assessing the similarity of demographic distributions across multiple attributes in different biomedical datasets.

    Available at https://github.com/MIDRC/MIDRC_Diversity_Calculator