Disparities in Dermatology AI Performance on a Diverse, Curated Clinical Image Set

Understand

Access to dermatological care is a major issue, with an estimated 3 billion people lacking access to care globally.

• Artificial intelligence (AI) may aid in triaging skin diseases.
• However, most AI models have not been rigorously assessed on images of diverse skin tones or uncommon diseases.
• To ascertain potential biases in algorithm performance in this context, we curated the Diverse Dermatology Images (DDI) dataset-the first publicly available, expertly curated, and pathologically confirmed image dataset with diverse skin tones.