🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨

Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.

Whether you’re researching fair algorithms, bias mitigation, or ethical AI in healthcare, this workshop is the perfect platform to showcase your work and connect.

Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 https://faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-workshop/

#FAIMI #MICCAI2025 #MedicalImaging #FairAI #HealthcareAI #AIethics

📝 Submission Guidelines:
Detailed submission instructions are available on our workshop website: https://faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-workshop/
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the MICCAI proceedings.

🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟

📅 Important Dates:
(All dates are Anywhere on Earth)
Workshop day: Sept 23, 2025 (in-person only event)
Abstract / placeholder: June 11, 2025
Full Paper Deadline: June 25, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: July 16, 2025
Camera-ready Version: July 30, 2025

📢 [DEADLINE EXTENDED to 21 April] CfP for Papers: Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging

We invite submissions for our special issue on fairness in AI for medical imaging in MELBA (diamond open-access). Topics include bias assessment, fairness definitions, ethical considerations, bias mitigation, and more. Full CfP at: https://faimi-workshop.github.io/2024-melba/

📅 Submission deadline EXTENDED until April 21, 2025

📩 If you plan to submit, please contact me (vech@itu.dk) so we can start recruiting reviewers :)

Interested in #bias and #fairness in #MedicalImaging, but could not make it to the #MICCAI2023 #FAIMI workshop? Worry not, in 3 weeks time we have a free virtual workshop on these topics! Keynotes by Sanmi Koyejo, Sara Gerke and Kanwal Bhatia

⏰ When: Mon, Nov 6, 2023, 13:00 UTC
✅ Registration and program: https://faimi-workshop.github.io/2023-online/

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🚨The Miccai 2023 FAIMI/EPIMI workshop is under way! If you are at MICCAI, stop by in the coffee break to see the awesome work on fairness in medical imaging being presented here. #FAIMI2023 #MICCAI2023 @DrVeronikaCH

The keynote talk at #FAIMI2023 #MICCAI2023 is given by Dr. Judy Gichoya, MD MS and has the title "Shortcuts" causing bias in radiology AI: Causes, Evaluation and Mitigation.

And if you missed Judy Gichoya's keynote talk, then check out her recent review titled "“Shortcuts” Causing Bias in Radiology Artificial Intelligence: Causes, Evaluation, and Mitigation" at https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(23)00526-4/fulltext

Decades of failure to heed the warnings of climate scientists has led us to this point. Even taking #ClimateAction now will not halt the progress of #ClimateChange. The things happening today will seem tame when viewed from a decade in the future. Our task is to document those responsible so that the next generation can hold them to account for their crimes
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures

As powerful and wealthy men in Silicon Valley pontificate about the future existential risks of AI, while simultaneously profiting from AI wars, here is a timeline of key contributions of many women and others from marginalized communities around the world who are fighting an uphill battle to keep humanity safe from the harms of recklessly developed and deployed AI.
https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416
#AIethics #representationmatters #responsibleAI

I've had a near-constant underlying sense of dread for months now, and dire reports about #ClimateChange are undoubtedly contributing factors. But ignoring the warnings won't make the danger go away.

Some say it's too late and there's nothing we can do. Others say that individual actions are pointless because corporations are doing all the real harm.

I disagree with both perspectives, and feel I owe it to all species to do what I can to help slow the damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

Norditalien säuft ab, Süditalien brennt ab, irgendwo schmilzt Eis in Millionen-Jahre-Rekordtempo, diverse Meere sind einfach mal 5 Grad zu warm für die Jahreszeit, die Fische schwimmen mit dem Bauch nach oben - also alles in allem ein völlig normaler Tag in 2023.

Und irgendwo schreibt Opa Martin:" Sommer '76 war es auch warm!" Und Onkel Christian: "Wir sollten jetzt nichts überstürzen!"

Einmal diesen Seelenfrieden in MIR haben. Ich würde einiges dafür geben.

#Klima #klimawandel

Notstand-Artensterben ausrufen!
🌍 Neben der Klimakatastrophe ist das Artensterben eine mindestens genauso große Bedrohung für das Leben auf unserem Planeten.
❌ In den letzten 50 Jahren wurden mehr als 70% der wild lebenden Tier- und Pflanzenarten auf der Welt ausgelöscht. Dies hat nicht nur schwerwiegende Auswirkungen auf die Natur, sondern bedroht auch das Leben vieler Menschen.
Ab dem 28. August findet die Vollversammlung des Weltbiodiversitätsrates (IPBES) 2023 in Bonn statt. Darum protestieren wir:
⏰ Sonntag, den 27. August von 12 bis 14 Uhr
📍 Start: Altes Rathaus/Marktplatz in Bonn bis zum Platz der Vereinten Nationen
Wir werden allen Teilnehmer*innen vor Konferenzbeginn deutlich machen: Wir machen die Ausbeutung der Natur, die Gefährdung der Artenvielfalt und unseres eigenen Überlebens nicht länger mit.
‼️ Wir fordern den Weltbiodiversitätsrat und unserer Regierung auf, den Notstand- Artensterben auszurufen.
Sei in Bonn dabei!

#KlimaKrise #KlimaKatastrophe

An article at the Guardian provides a collection of statements from various scientists about the alarming and accelerating pace of the climate crisis...
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"Climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts

Professor Mark Howden, director of the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University, says:

It is distressing to see the widespread damage caused by the current outbreak of extreme events in many parts of the globe. Unfortunately, they are not a one-off but part of a longer trend fuelled by human greenhouse gas emissions. So they are not unexpected.

Worryingly, it is clear that future extremes will again break records and cause even greater damage. In particular, this is because the damage in many cases is non-linear – it rises more and more quickly for each increment of climate change.

This should cause us concern. It rationally should cause us to step back and assess what is in our economic, social and environmental interests. The IPCC has done this and the assessment is clear: it is in our interest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly, substantially and in a sustained way.

It is also in our interest to put in place large and integrated programs for climate adaptation to deal with the climate change impacts we can’t avoid. Taking action to reduce emissions and to adapt to climate change will give us hope. Do we really want the alternative?
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"Non-linear" consequences... that sounds very much like the warning from Alan Urban about exponential growth that I posted earlier today.

See -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110774550742128748

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Waldbrände auf Rhodos weiter außer Kontrolle

Noch immer keine Entwarnung für die griechische Urlaubsinsel Rhodos: Hitze und Wind erschweren die Löscharbeiten. Laut Regierung wurden 19.000 Menschen evakuiert. Internationale Verstärkung ist vor Ort.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/hitzewelle-suedeuropa-griechenland-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Hitze #Griechenand #Spanien

We also connect the different sources of performance differences with a group-conditional bias-variance-noise decomposition due to Irene Chen, Fredrik D. Johansson, David Sontag and with epistemic/aleatoric uncertainty. N/N

Importantly, standard #algorithmicfairness solutions are strictly limited in what they can achieve in this regard: if the statistical relationship between inputs and outputs is simply more noisy in some group, no amount of "fair learning" can fix this!

In the paper (co-authored with Sune Holm, @melanieganzben1, Aasa Feragen), we discuss many more concrete medical examples of the different sources of bias, and we propose some tentative solution approaches. 6/N

To address differing task difficulty, the causes of the differences must be understood and resolved. This may require identifying appropriate additional (or alternative) measurements that resolve residual uncertainty in affected groups.

In other words: we may not always need *more* data from underperforming groups, but rather *better* data. (Or both.) 5/N

Complicating everything, the prediction targets may be noisy (think disease labels automatically inferred from EHRs) or biased against certain groups (think underdiagnosis), affecting both the model *and its evaluation*. Same for selection biases.

Under label noise/bias and selection bias, the equality of performance metrics on a test set is neither necessary nor sufficient for "performance fairness". Thus, investigating and addressing these should be the first priority! 4/N

There is another crucial factor: *the difficulty of the prediction task may differ between patient groups,* i.e., the relationship between prediction inputs and prediction targets can simply be less deterministic in some groups.

Why would difficulty differ between patient groups? Measurements may be more noisy (abdominal ultrasound in obese patients), or there may be unobserved causes of the outcome that are more important in some groups than others (hormone fluctuations, comorbidities). 3/N