Ethics
Ethics is a first-class pillar of HOPE METRIX. We focus on research-only positioning, explicit uncertainty, and safeguards against clinical misuse.
HOPE METRIX is intended for scientific research purposes only. It does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or clinical decisions.
HOPE METRIX is designed exclusively for scientific research and methodological exploration. Demonstrators support hypothesis generation, risk modeling research, and exploratory analysis only.
The platform’s intended purpose is research support. Outputs are relative risk indicators, exploratory stratifications, and uncertainty-aware research metrics. This clarifies the boundary with medical device intended-purpose criteria (EU MDR / similar frameworks) without making any compliance claim.
- • Transparency of assumptions and limitations
- • Uncertainty surfaced first-class
- • Human oversight and governance encouraged
- • Misuse prevention and conservative language
- • Demonstrators rely on synthetic or abstracted representations (no raw uploads)
- • Data minimization and traceability are design principles
- • Ethics review is required for any real-world data usage
We treat rare-event settings, imbalance, confounding, and population shift as core risks. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Outputs must not be interpreted for individual patient care.
For ethics or governance questions, please contact your institutional reviewer or ethics committee. You can also request a governance discussion with HOPE METRIX.
For a detailed, versioned, non-editable document embedded in demonstrator exports, see: