AI misses illnesses in black people and women, analysis of chest x-rays reveals

“The researchers found that in half of cases, conditions such as cardiac hypertrophy were not detected when patients were black women.”

CheXzero was billed as matching radiologists. It missed conditions like an enlarged heart in half of cases for Black women. It can guess a patient’s race from an X-ray better than a radiologist can. Its training data overrepresents white men aged 40 to 80.