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Training physicians and algorithms in dermatology diversity
12.16.2022
There's a long-standing challenge in dermatology: Textbooks, databases, journals and lectures are largely bereft of images that feature darker skin.
Their absence can cause gaps in clinical expertise and in diagnosis, as symptoms of a disease don't necessarily appear the same on all skin tones. Physicians trained to identify signs of illness on lighter shades can overlook them in people with a darker complexion, and algorithms trained on a sea of beige pictures may miss signs of disease when evaluating images from a patient with brown skin.
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