Let’s be real: even with the best intentions, AI systems can reflect our own unconscious biases. As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky famously demonstrated in their groundbreaking work on Prospect Theory, humans are prone to cognitive biases that influence our…
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Few Testing Facilities, Timing of Coverage Pose Challenge in CGP Testing in Japan: Oncologist
Japan only has a small number of facilities that perform comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) testing and lacks health coverage for such assays conducted before standard therapy, presenting challenges in cancer treatment, an oncologist stressed on February 25. Yoshiaki Nakamura, chief…
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