AI Skin Cancer Detection Tools Are Getting Better – but only for People with Light Skin

AI skin cancer detection tools are getting better, but only for people with light skin

Imagine you're getting out of the shower one morning and notice a mole on your thigh that you've never seen before. It's reddish-brown, bumpy and surprisingly large. Is it a benign mole, or is it melanoma?

AI skin cancer detection tools are improving but they have a major blind spot

Why does this bias exist? The answer lies in the images used to train AI models

AI skin cancer detection tools are getting better – but only for people with light skin

These apps and software programs could provide access to lifesaving screening – if researchers can find a way to remove the baked-in bias.