AI-driven healthcare: A review on ensuring fairness and mitigating bias

Sribala Vidyadhari Chinta; Zichong Wang; Avash Palikhe; Xingyu Zhang; Ayesha Kashif; Monique Antoinette Smith; Jun Liu; Wenbin Zhang

doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000864

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AI-driven healthcare: A review on ensuring fairness and mitigating bias

Sribala Vidyadhari Chinta,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Zichong Wang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Avash Palikhe,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Xingyu Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8108-1997

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Ayesha Kashif,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy, Hialeah, Florida, United States of America
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Monique Antoinette Smith,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Jun Liu ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: liujun@cmu.edu (JL); wenbin.zhang@fiu.edu (WZ)

Affiliation Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3808-4599

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Wenbin Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: liujun@cmu.edu (JL); wenbin.zhang@fiu.edu (WZ)

Affiliation Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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AI-driven healthcare: A review on ensuring fairness and mitigating bias

Sribala Vidyadhari Chinta,
Zichong Wang,
Avash Palikhe,
Xingyu Zhang,
Ayesha Kashif,
Monique Antoinette Smith,
Jun Liu,
Wenbin Zhang

Published: May 20, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000864

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