Summary of Driving Down Poisson Error Can Offset Classification Error in Clinical Tasks, by Charles B. Delahunt et al.
Driving down Poisson error can offset classification error in clinical tasks
by Charles B. Delahunt, Courosh Mehanian, Matthew P. Horning
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new evaluation metric for medical machine learning algorithms that accounts for the Poisson statistics of rare events in clinical settings. Currently, accuracy is measured against a clinician-defined ground truth, but this neglects the inherent variability in human classification due to sample size limitations. The authors argue that an ML system can be more effective than a human classifier by examining larger samples, even if its object-level accuracy is lower. The proposed metric aims to capture the actual clinical task and provide a more comprehensive evaluation of ML models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is trying to make medical machine learning better. Right now, we measure how good a computer program is at diagnosing diseases or counting tiny things in blood by comparing it to what doctors do. But doctors aren’t perfect either – they can get different answers depending on how much time they spend looking at the blood. This paper thinks that computers could be better than humans if we let them look at more samples, even if they’re not perfect at diagnosing each tiny thing. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning
