top | item 37238043 (no title) r-zip | 2 years ago Even with an accuracy score, it’s meaningless. Accuracy isn’t the right metric. discuss order hn newest glompers|2 years ago If you like, please mention more; I at least am interested to hear malfist|2 years ago Consider it this way.If your AI algo scanned the general population and it said 100% of the time, "no risk of esophageal cancer" It'd still be 99.5% accurate.It's highly accurate. And useless.To get a good idea of how useful it is, you need to know it's false negative rate and false positive rate as well as it's accuracy.
glompers|2 years ago If you like, please mention more; I at least am interested to hear malfist|2 years ago Consider it this way.If your AI algo scanned the general population and it said 100% of the time, "no risk of esophageal cancer" It'd still be 99.5% accurate.It's highly accurate. And useless.To get a good idea of how useful it is, you need to know it's false negative rate and false positive rate as well as it's accuracy.
malfist|2 years ago Consider it this way.If your AI algo scanned the general population and it said 100% of the time, "no risk of esophageal cancer" It'd still be 99.5% accurate.It's highly accurate. And useless.To get a good idea of how useful it is, you need to know it's false negative rate and false positive rate as well as it's accuracy.
glompers|2 years ago
malfist|2 years ago
If your AI algo scanned the general population and it said 100% of the time, "no risk of esophageal cancer" It'd still be 99.5% accurate.
It's highly accurate. And useless.
To get a good idea of how useful it is, you need to know it's false negative rate and false positive rate as well as it's accuracy.