June 2, 2021

New Papers in Nature Machine Intelligence

Alex DeGrave (MSTP entry 2018) and Joe Janizek (MSTP entry 2016), first- and third-year graduate students working with Dr. Su-In Lee in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, respectively, are first- and second-authors on a new paper in Nature Machine Intelligence showing that artificial intelligence can sometimes cheat when reading chest X-rays and cannot be relied upon for COVID-19 diagnosis.

Joe has a second paper with Gabe Erion (MSTP entry 2015) in the same journal showing how artificial intelligence can be made more accurate.

Read more:

• https://news.cs.washington.edu/2021/06/01/allen-school-researchers-discover-medical-ai-models-rely-on-shortcuts-that-could-lead-to-misdiagnosis-of-covid-19-and-other-diseases/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-021-00338-7
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-021-00343-w