Ifølge Norges nasjonale strategi for kunstig intelligens (2020) er offentlig forvaltning og helse blant Norges satsningsområder for bruk av kunstig intelligens. Maskinlæring er en undergruppe av kunstig intelligens med potensiale for å løse en rekke utfordringer, men som også gir opphav til utfordringer. En slik utfordring er bias, eller skjevhet. Et eksempel på skjevhet er at tilstedeværende ulikheter i samfunnet representeres i datagrunnlaget maskinlæringsmodeller utvikles på. De resulterende modellene står dermed i fare for å adoptere og videreføre disse ulikhetene. En utfordring er at skjevhet har ulike definisjoner innen ulike fagområder, og kan ha mange ulike opphav. Vi bidrar til å løse denne utfordringen ved å gi en oversikt over ulike typer skjevhet og deres opphav med illustrasjoner fra et velferdsperspektiv, samt avklarer forskjellen til det nærliggende konseptet rettferdighet. Vi demonstrerer utfordringer relatert til databaserte modellers oppførsel ved å benytte maskinlæring til å predikere fremtidig ressursbehov i helsevesenet, spesifikt antall legebesøk i kommuner. Vi demonstrerer ulike typer skjevheter, diskuterer mulige løsninger og bruker metoder fra forklarbar kunstig intelligens for å analysere opphavet til skjevheter i forklaringsvariablene. Det finnes ingen universell løsning for å håndtere alle typer skjevheter, men skjevhet må tas høyde for i alle deler av en kvantitativ analyse.

The Medico Multimedia Task focuses on providing multimedia researchers with the opportunity to contribute to different areas of medicine using multimedia data to solve several subtasks. This year, the task focuses on transparency within machine learning-based medical segmentation systems, where the use case is gastrointestinal endoscopy. In this paper, we motivate the organization of this task, describe the development and test dataset, and present the evaluation process used to assess the participants' submissions.

Precise and efficient automated identification of Gastrointestinal (GI) tract diseases can help doctors treat more patients and improve the rate of disease detection and identification. Currently, automatic analysis of diseases in the GI tract is a hot topic in both computer science and medical-related journals. Nevertheless, the evaluation of such an automatic analysis is often incomplete or simply wrong. Algorithms are often only tested on small and biased datasets, and cross-dataset evaluations are rarely performed. A clear understanding of evaluation metrics and machine learning models with cross datasets is crucial to bring research in the field to a new quality level. Towards this goal, we present comprehensive evaluations of five distinct machine learning models using Global Features and Deep Neural Networks that can classify 16 different key types of GI tract conditions, including pathological findings, anatomical landmarks, polyp removal conditions, and normal findings from images captured by common GI tract examination instruments. Inour evaluation, we introduce performance hexagons using six performance metrics such as recall, precision, specificity, accuracy, F1-score, and Matthews Correlation Coefficient to demonstrate how to determine the real capabilities of models rather than evaluatingthem shallowly. Furthermore, we perform cross-dataset evaluations using different datasets for training and testing. With these cross-dataset evaluations, we demonstrate the challenge of actually building a generalizable model that could be used across different hospitals. Our experiments clearly show that more sophisticated performance metrics and evaluation methods need to be applied to get reliable models rather than depending on evaluations of the splits of the same dataset, i.e., the performance metrics should always be interpreted together rather than relying on a single metric.

Methods for automatic analysis of clinical data are usually targeted towards a specific modality and do not make use of all relevant data available. In the field of male human reproduction, clinical and biological data
are not used to its fullest potential. Manual evaluation of a semen sample using a microscope is time-consuming and requires extensive training. Furthermore, the validity of manual semen analysis has been questioned due to limited reproducibility, and often high inter-personnel variation. The existing computer-aided sperm analyzer systems are not recommended for routine clinical use due to methodological challenges caused by the consistency of the semen sample. Thus, there is a need for an improved methodology.
We use modern and classical machine learning techniques together with a dataset consisting of 85 videos of human semen samples and related participant data to automatically predict sperm motility. Used techniques include simple linear regression and more sophisticated methods using convolutional neural networks. Our results indicate that sperm motility prediction based on deep learning using sperm motility videos is rapid to perform and consistent. The algorithms performed worse when participant data was added. In conclusion, machine learning-based automatic analysis may become a valuable tool in male infertility investigation and research.

We are today overwhelmed with information, of which an important part is news. Sports news, in particular, has become very popular, where soccer makes up a big part of this coverage. For sports fans, it can be a time consuming and tedious to keep up with the news that they really care about. In this paper, we present different machine learning methods applied to soccer news from a Norwegian newspaper and a TV station's news site to summarize the content in a short and digestible manner. We present a system to collect, index, label, analyze, and present the collected news articles based on the content. We perform a thorough comparison between deep learning and traditional machine learning algorithms on text classification. Furthermore, we present a dataset of soccer news which was collected from two different Norwegian news sites and shared online.