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Memorisation bias in medical AI

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Medical AI models hold immense potential to improve patient outcomes, but they are also known to unintentionally memorise individual records from their training datasets. While such memorisation has been linked to targeted privacy attacks, its consequences for clinical deployment, where patients may be assessed by a model that saw their historical data during training, remain poorly understood. Here we show that predictions on a patient's unseen future data can change significantly if a model observed that same patient's anonymised historical data during training, a phenomenon we term "memoris

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