Ghana’s hospitals are adopting AI, but the machines were never trained on Ghanaian patients
An algorithm that reads chest X-rays learns by looking at tens of thousands of them. It learns what a normal lung looks like, what tuberculosis looks like, what a tumour looks like, by being shown examples until the pattern sticks. The question nobody asks at the point of purchase is whose lungs it was shown. If the answer is Boston…
An algorithm that reads chest X-rays learns by looking at tens of thousands of them. It learns what a normal lung looks like, what tuberculosis looks like, what a tumour looks like, by being shown examples until the pattern sticks. The question nobody asks at the point of purchase is whose lungs it was shown. If the answer is Boston…