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. 2024 Apr 10;30(4):1166–1173. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-02838-6

Table 1.

Summary of the experimental setup and major improvements for each modality

Experimental setup Histopathology Radiology Dermatology
Diffusion model Conditioning variable Diagnosis and hospital ID Diagnosis Diagnosis and demographic attribute
Access to unlabeled data (additional to the diagnostic model’s training data) Yes No Yes
Using OOD unlabeled data No No Yes
Diagnostic model Synthetic/real data ratio 50:50 100:0 75:25
Performance metric Top-1 accuracy ROC-AUC High-risk sensitivity
Relative performance improvement with regard to baseline without augmentations 48.5% 5.2% 27.3%
Absolute fairness improvement with regard to baseline ↓ 30.0% in-distribution ↓ 0.031 OOD ↓ 0.044 OOD

Performance improvements are reported with respect to the respective baseline method, while fairness improvements are reported in absolute terms with respect to the baseline for the corresponding performance metric.