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Presented by
\n<\/b><\/span>Susan McRoy, PhD
\nProfessor & Dept. Chair, Computer Science
\nBiomedical and Health Informatics PhD
\n<\/span>UW-Milwaukee<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. McRoy will summarize recent work on Explanatory Artificial Intelligence to address a variety of Public Health and clinical challenges including helping people to assess the quality of online health information; to verify that Machine Learning (ML) modeling aligns with expert judgement; and to code free-text health survey items at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

The seminar can also be attended virtually on Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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