AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study
by Nicola Davis Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5RQCP)
Research finds few image databases available to develop technology contain details on ethnicity or skin type
AI systems being developed to diagnose skin cancer run the risk of being less accurate for people with dark skin, research suggests.
The potential of AI has led to developments in healthcare, with some studies suggesting image recognition technology based on machine learning algorithms can classify skin cancers as successfully as human experts.
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