Table 7 Significant testing for the SER values of the most fair knee segmentation models for different protected attributes compared to baseline performance.

From: Fair AI-powered orthopedic image segmentation: addressing bias and promoting equitable healthcare

U-Net backbone

Protected attribute

SER metric

Best model

p-value

Reject

ResNet18

Race

Dice

Stratified

0.055

No

Sex

Dice

Stratified

0.707

No

EfficientNet-B0

Race

Dice

Stratified

0.523

No

Sex

IoU

Group

0.038

Yes

Age

Dice

Stratified

0.367

No