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by r-zip 1024 days ago
Even with an accuracy score, it’s meaningless. Accuracy isn’t the right metric.
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If you like, please mention more; I at least am interested to hear
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.