Communications Medicine (Sep 2022)

Subpopulation-specific machine learning prognosis for underrepresented patients with double prioritized bias correction

  • Sharmin Afrose,
  • Wenjia Song,
  • Charles B. Nemeroff,
  • Chang Lu,
  • Danfeng (Daphne) Yao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00165-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Afrose, Song et al. highlight deficiencies in the widely accepted one-machine-learning-model-fits-all approach. The authors develop a bias correction method that produces specialized machine learning-based prognostication models for underrepresented racial and age groups.