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Dermatology data sets lack ethnicity, skin type information

Dermatology data sets lack ethnicity, skin type information

Even Google is creating tools to help patients find answers to dermatological questions. However, there are still many questions about how artificial intelligence algorithms are trained, and whether the data sets used are representative of the population. 

New research out of the Lancet found that publicly available datasets that are used to train skin cancer diagnosis algorithms are lacking data surrounding ethnicity and skin type.