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Apr 2021
40m 17s

Pandemic Machine Learning Pitfalls

Kyle Polich
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Today on the show Derek Driggs, a PhD Student at the University of Cambridge. He comes on to discuss the work Common Pitfalls and Recommendations for Using Machine Learning to Detect and Prognosticate for COVID-19 Using Chest Radiographs and CT Scans.

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