Contrastive learning enhances fairness in pathology artificial intelligence systems
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Authors and affiliations:
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raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
raw_author_name: Pei-Chen Tsai
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
raw_author_name: Fang-Yi Su
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raw_author_name: Chun-Yen Chen
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
raw_author_name: Fuchen Li
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
raw_author_name: Junhan Zhao
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
raw_author_name: Yuk Yeung Ho
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
raw_author_name: Tsung-Lu Michael Lee
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan 710, Taiwan
raw_author_name: Elizabeth Healey
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02139, USA
raw_author_name: Po-Jen Lin
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raw_author_name: Ting-Wan Kao
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raw_author_name: Dmytro Vremenko
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raw_author_name: Thomas Roetzer-Pejrimovsky
raw_affiliation_strings: Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Comprehensive Center for Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
raw_author_name: Lynette Sholl
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raw_author_name: Deborah Dillon
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raw_author_name: Nancy U. Lin
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raw_author_name: David Meredith
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raw_author_name: Keith L. Ligon
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raw_author_name: Ying-Chun Lo
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raw_author_name: Nipon Chaisuriya
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raw_author_name: David J. Cook
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raw_author_name: Adelheid Woehrer
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raw_author_name: Jeffrey Meyerhardt
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raw_author_name: Shuji Ogino
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raw_author_name: MacLean P. Nasrallah
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raw_author_name: Jeffrey A. Golden
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raw_author_name: Sabina Signoretti
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raw_author_name: Jung-Hsien Chiang
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