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AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy::undefined

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[–] dirtdigger@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You need to report two numbers for a classifier, though. I can create a classifier that catches all cases of autism just by saying that everybody has autism. You also need a false positive rate.

[–] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, but as far as I can tell the AUROC measure they refer to incorporates both.

[–] dirtdigger@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yup, you're right, good catch 🙂