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Liam G. McCoy, MD MSc

Neurology Resident Physician, UAlberta
Verified email at mail.utoronto.ca
Cited by 423

Believing in black boxes: machine learning for healthcare does not need explainability to be evidence-based

LG McCoy, CTA Brenna, SS Chen, K Vold… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the role of explainability in machine learning for healthcare (MLHC),
and its necessity and significance with respect to effective and ethical MLHC application. …

[HTML][HTML] What do medical students actually need to know about artificial intelligence?

LG McCoy, S Nagaraj, F Morgado, V Harish… - NPJ digital …, 2020 - nature.com
With emerging innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) poised to substantially impact medical
practice, interest in training current and future physicians about the technology is growing. …

[HTML][HTML] Equity in essence: a call for operationalising fairness in machine learning for healthcare

JW Gichoya, LG McCoy, LA Celi… - BMJ health & care …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
INTRODUCTION Machine learning for healthcare (MLHC) is at the juncture of leaping from
the pages of journals and conference proceedings to clinical implementation at the bedside. …

Characterizing early Canadian federal, provincial, territorial and municipal nonpharmaceutical interventions in response to COVID-19: a descriptive analysis

LG McCoy, J Smith, K Anchuri, I Berry… - … Open Access Journal, 2020 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are the primary tools to mitigate early
spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, such policies are …

[HTML][HTML] Developing and validating a prediction model for death or critical illness in hospitalized adults, an opportunity for human-computer collaboration

AA Verma, C Pou-Prom, LG McCoy… - Critical Care …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: Hospital early warning systems that use machine learning (ML) to predict
clinical deterioration are increasingly being used to aid clinical decision-making. However, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Ensuring machine learning for healthcare works for all

LG McCoy, JD Banja, M Ghassemi… - BMJ Health & Care …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Unfortunately, modern healthcare is already rife with treatments that fail to live up to evidentiary
scrutiny, 10 while evidence behind their use is riddled with biases that further deepen …

[HTML][HTML] An ethical analysis of clinical triage protocols and decision-making frameworks: what do the principles of justice, freedom, and a disability rights approach …

J Zhu, CTA Brenna, LG McCoy, CGK Atkins, S Das - BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 - Springer
Background The expectation of pandemic-induced severe resource shortages has prompted
authorities to draft and update frameworks to guide clinical decision-making and patient …

Large scale genotype‐and phenotype‐driven machine learning in Von Hippel‐Lindau disease

…, S Macpherson, ER Maher, LG McCoy… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Von Hippel‐Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome where individuals are
predisposed to tumor development in the brain, adrenal gland, kidney, and other organs. It is …

[HTML][HTML] MIT COVID-19 Datathon: data without boundaries

…, OJ Mechanic, J Mlabasati, LG McCoy… - BMJ …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Twitter Eva M Luo@ EvaMLuo Publisher's Disclaimer: Map disclaimer The depiction of
boundaries on the map (s) in this article do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever …

[HTML][HTML] Peer review of GPT-4 technical report and systems card

…, M Ghassemi, D Demner-Fushman, LG McCoy… - PLOS Digital …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The study provides a comprehensive review of OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer
4 (GPT-4) technical report, with an emphasis on applications in high-risk settings like …