TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing Equity
T2 - Working towards Fair Machine Learning Algorithms in Laboratory Medicine
AU - Azimi, Vahid
AU - Zaydman, Mark A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Association for Clinical Chemistry 2023. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Background: Methods of machine learning provide opportunities to use real-world data to solve complex problems. Applications of these methods in laboratory medicine promise to increase diagnostic accuracy and streamline laboratory operations leading to improvement in the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. However, machine learning models are vulnerable to learning from undesirable patterns in the data that reflect societal biases. As a result, irresponsible application of machine learning may lead to the perpetuation, or even amplification, of existing disparities in healthcare outcomes. Content: In this work, we review what it means for a model to be unfair, discuss the various ways that machine learning models become unfair, and present engineering principles emerging from the field of algorithmic fairness. These materials are presented with a focus on the development of machine learning models in laboratory medicine. Summary: We hope that this work will serve to increase awareness, and stimulate further discussion, of this important issue among laboratorians as the field moves forward with the incorporation of machine learning models into laboratory practice.
AB - Background: Methods of machine learning provide opportunities to use real-world data to solve complex problems. Applications of these methods in laboratory medicine promise to increase diagnostic accuracy and streamline laboratory operations leading to improvement in the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. However, machine learning models are vulnerable to learning from undesirable patterns in the data that reflect societal biases. As a result, irresponsible application of machine learning may lead to the perpetuation, or even amplification, of existing disparities in healthcare outcomes. Content: In this work, we review what it means for a model to be unfair, discuss the various ways that machine learning models become unfair, and present engineering principles emerging from the field of algorithmic fairness. These materials are presented with a focus on the development of machine learning models in laboratory medicine. Summary: We hope that this work will serve to increase awareness, and stimulate further discussion, of this important issue among laboratorians as the field moves forward with the incorporation of machine learning models into laboratory practice.
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U2 - 10.1093/jalm/jfac085
DO - 10.1093/jalm/jfac085
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36610413
AN - SCOPUS:85145965802
SN - 2576-9456
VL - 8
SP - 113
EP - 128
JO - The journal of applied laboratory medicine
JF - The journal of applied laboratory medicine
IS - 1
ER -