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Health Inf Sci Syst2026;14(1):18.December 1, 2026Journal Article

Conformal uncertainty quantification to evaluate predictive fairness of foundation AI model for skin lesion classes across patient demographics.

Swarnava Bhattacharyya1, Umapada Pal1, Tapabrata Chakraborti2
1Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
2The Alan Turing Institute and University College London, London, UK.

Abstract

Deep learning based diagnostic AI systems based on medical images are starting to provide similar performance as human experts. However, these data-hungry complex systems are inherently black boxes and therefore slow to be adopted for high-risk applications like healthcare. This problem of lack of transparency is exacerbated in the case of recent large foundation models, which are trained in a sel…

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