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Augmented versus artificial intelligence for stratification of patients with myositis
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With interest we read the recent article by Pinal-Fernandez and Mammen,1 which comments on the paper by Spielmann et al 2 and to a lesser extent on the contribution by Mariampillai et al 3 4 and raises concerns about the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven approach used to define subgroups of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM).
To illustrate this, Pinal-Fernandez and Mammen constructed a library of 1000 observations and selected the four variables using a multivariate normal distribution, thus finding a similar clustering as in the original paper by Spielmann et al.2 We share some of the concerns about unsupervised learning techniques raised by Pinal-Fernandez …