https://www.wired.com/story/ai-diagnose-illnesses-country-rich/
Will Knight
Business
10.11.2020 07:00 AM
AI Can Help Diagnose Some Illnesses—if Your Country Is Rich
Algorithms for detecting eye diseases are mostly trained on patients in the US, Europe, and China. This can make the tools ineffective for other racial groups and countries.
“The bias found in eye image datasets means algorithms trained on that data are less likely to work properly in Africa, Latin America, or southeast Asia. This would undermine one of the big supposed benefits of AI diagnosis: their potential to bring automated medical expertise to poorer areas where it is lacking.”