Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when access to a specialist child psychiatrist is limited.
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A convolutional neural network, a deep learning algorithm, was trained using 85% of the retinal images and symptom severity test scores to construct models to screen for ASD and ASD symptom severity. The remaining 15% of images were retained for testing.
It correctly identified 100% of the testing images. So it’s accurate.
For ASD screening on the test set of images, the AI could pick out the children with an ASD diagnosis with a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve of 1.00. AUROC ranges in value from 0 to 1. A model whose predictions are 100% wrong has an AUROC of 0.0; one whose predictions are 100% correct has an AUROC of 1.0, indicating that the AI’s predictions in the current study were 100% correct. There was no notable decrease in the mean AUROC, even when 95% of the least important areas of the image – those not including the optic disc – were removed.
They at least define how they get the 100% value, but I’m not an AIologist so I can’t tell if it is reasonable.
It correctly identified 100% of the testing images. So it’s accurate.
Yeah, from the way they wrote, it sounds to me they indirectly trained on the test set
Then somebody’s lying with creative application of 100% accuracy rates.
The confidence interval of the sequence you describe is not 100%
From TFA:
They at least define how they get the 100% value, but I’m not an AIologist so I can’t tell if it is reasonable.