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Do the sorts of diseases ML is being used to detect have a flat incidence profile over age? Even if they do, negating other diagnoses that are age dependent wou
by pbhjpbhj 2y ago
Do the sorts of diseases ML is being used to detect have a flat incidence profile over age? Even if they do, negating other diagnoses that are age dependent would still mean ML models would acquire a measure of patient age, say.
- carbocation 2y agoAlmost every noncommunicable disease of adulthood becomes more common with age. (The diagnoses in this paper were things like "cardiomegaly" which are mostly just X-ray findings and, while they have ICD codes, are not a meaningful diagnosis that a practicing physician would care about.)