arxiveess.IVcs.CVcs.CYcs.LG2026-07-08
False Confidence: Automated Labels Confound Fairness Audits in Cervical Spine Segmentation
Linus Juni, Aasa Feragen, Aditya Parikh
Automated segmentation of cervical-spine MRI is increasingly used in clinical workflows, yet no fairness audit exists for this anatomy. We show that auditing these segmentation tasks is complicated by a common property of modern segmentation datasets: expert-annotated gold labels…