Data available for training AI to spot skin cancer are insufficient and lacking in pictures of darker skin

Data available for training AI to spot skin cancer are insufficient and lacking in pictures of darker skin

2 years ago
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211109193256.htm

AI is increasingly being used in medicine as it can make diagnosis of diseases like skin cancer quicker and more effective. However, AI needs to be 'trained' by looking at data and images from a large number of patients where the diagnosis has already been established and so an AI program depends heavily upon the information it is trained on.

Researchers say there is an urgent need for better sets of data on skin cancers and other skin lesions which contain information on who is represented in the datasets.