Giving AI penalties results in better diagnoses (IMAGE)

University of Johannesburg

Giving AI penalties results in better diagnoses

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Telling sick people that they’re healthy, can happen when a human doctor sees a patient. It also happens when Artificial Intelligence (AI) learns to diagnose disease. But giving a big penalty to an algorithm for false negatives results in much better precision, UJ researchers find. The research appears in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2021.100690

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Graphic design by Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg. Based on Pixabay images.

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