Developing a fair and interpretable representation of the clock drawing test for mitigating low education and racial bias.

ABSTRACT: The clock drawing test (CDT) is a neuropsychological assessment tool to screen an individual's cognitive ability. In this study, we developed a Fair and Interpretable Representation of Clock drawing test (FaIRClocks) to evaluate and mitigate classification bias against people with less than 8 years of education, while screening their cognitive function using an array of neuropsychological measures. In this study, we represented clock drawings by a priorly published 10-dimensional deep learning feature set trained on publicly available data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). These embeddings were further fine-tuned with clocks from a preoperative cognitive screening program at the University of Florida to predict three cognitive scores: the Mini-Mental State Examinatio

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11286895 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature