Machine Learning Models Are Not Necessarily Biased When Constructed Properly: Evidence from Neuroimaging Studies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13421v1
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 15:24:39 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning Models Are Not Necessarily Biased When Constructed Properly: Evidence from Neuroimaging Studies
• Authors: Rongguang Wang, Pratik Chaudhari, Christos Davatzikos
• Abstract summary: We provide experimental data which support that when properly trained, machine learning models can generalize well across diverse conditions. Specifically, by using multi-study magnetic resonance imaging consortia for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and autism spectrum disorder, we find that, the accuracy of well-trained models is consistent across different subgroups.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite the great promise that machine learning has offered in many fields of medicine, it has also raised concerns about potential biases and poor generalization across genders, age distributions, races and ethnicities, hospitals, and data acquisition equipment and protocols. In the current study, and in the context of three brain diseases, we provide experimental data which support that when properly trained, machine learning models can generalize well across diverse conditions and do not suffer from biases. Specifically, by using multi-study magnetic resonance imaging consortia for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and autism spectrum disorder, we find that, the accuracy of well-trained models is consistent across different subgroups pertaining to attributes such as gender, age, and racial groups, as also different clinical studies. We find that models that incorporate multi-source data from demographic, clinical, genetic factors and cognitive scores are also unbiased. These models have better predictive accuracy across subgroups than those trained only with structural measures in some cases but there are also situations when these additional features do not help.

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