Equity in essence: a call for operationalising fairness in machine learning for healthcare

Judy Wawira Gichoya^{1

2}, Liam G McCoy³, Leo Anthony Celi^{4

5

6}, Marzyeh Ghassemi^{7

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada liam.mccoy@mail.utoronto.ca.
⁴ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Harvrd T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Judy Wawira Gichoya et al. BMJ Health Care Inform. 2021 Apr.

. 2021 Apr;28(1):e100289.

doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2020-100289.

Judy Wawira Gichoya^{1

2}, Liam G McCoy³, Leo Anthony Celi^{4

5

6}, Marzyeh Ghassemi^{7

8

9}

¹ Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada liam.mccoy@mail.utoronto.ca.
⁴ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Harvrd T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: BMJ health informatics.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: MG acts as an advisor to Radical Ventures in Toronto.

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