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2026-08-13
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CNNs & Image Recognition
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9 min read
Medical Imaging AI — Validation Design Comes Before the Accuracy Number
An AI that scored beautifully on your own hospital's data turns out to be useless at the hospital next door — a failure that has been reported over and over in medical imaging. Sensitivity and specificity, the way prevalence flips the meaning of a positive result, internal versus external validation, what site-to-site variation actually is, and what regulators are really reviewing: building up, from first principles, the habit of questioning the validation design before the accuracy figure.