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[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Accuracy in a classification context is defined as (N correct classifications / total classifications). So classifying everything as cancer would, in a balanced dataset, give you ~50% accuracy.

This article is indeed badly written PR fluff. I linked the paper in a sister comment. Both the confusion matrix and the ROC curve look phenomenal. Train/test/validation split seems fine too, as do the training diagnostics, so I'm optimistic that it isn't a case of overfitting.

Ofcourse 3rd party replication would be welcome, and I can't speak to the medical relevanve of the dataset. But the computer vision side of things seems well executed.

[โ€“] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Thx for the comment! I edited my post accordingly.