2 papers
cs.CV2026
Robust Mitigation of Age-Dependent Confounding Effects via Sample-Difficulty Decorrelation
Nikhil Cherian Kurian, Victor Caquilpan Parra, Abin Shoby +2
Age dependent performance disparities in medical image classification often arise because age acts as a confounder, linking imaging morphology with disease prevalence. In practice,…
cs.LG2026
Worst-Group Equalized Odds Regularization for Multi-Attribute Fair Medical Image Classification
Nikhil Cherian Kurian, Victor Caquilpan Parra, Abin Shoby +6
Diagnostic performance in medical AI varies systematically across demographic groups, yet subgroup AUC can mask clinically important disparities. At a fixed inference-time operatin…