How much less valuable are numbers than people think they are?

#Biomedical #Engineering #Fairness #Bias
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Medicine was practiced for thousands of years before numbers were first used by Santori to measure the pulse rate in the early 1600s. Since then diagnostic medicine has made more and more numerical measurements, with recent explosion in the context of computerization and machine learning. But how useful are numbers, really? In this talk, I will reflect on several issues associated with medical data and their interpretation: accuracy, fairness, bias, and others.


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  • Date: 25 Jan 2022
  • Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) Canada/Eastern
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  • Ottawa, Ontario
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  • Starts 24 January 2022 09:43 PM
  • Ends 25 January 2022 11:30 AM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) Canada/Eastern
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Dr. Andy Adler

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Andy Adler is a Canada Research Professor in biomedical engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests broadly in the area of biomedical measurement and robust data analysis.