Research has revealed AI is mainly trained to assess white skin.
Lancet Digital Health,
found that while AI systems hold a lot of potential for diagnosing skin cancer , the systems may not be as accurate or successful at diagnosing skin cancer in people with darker skin. The researchers analysed over 100,000 pictures of skin conditions from 21 datasets that are commonly used to train AI systems. However, only 2,436 of the pictures mentioned the skin colour of the patient, only 10 were of brown skin and, alarmingly, only one was of dark brown or black skin. Of the 1,585 pictures that mentioned specific ethnicity of the patient, none were from people with African, Afro-Caribbean or South Asian background.
Unfortunately, this is by far the first time Black and Brown communities are more at risk in the medical system than their white counterparts.
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