The Basque Country is implementing Quantus Skin in its health clinics after an investment of 1.6 million euros. Specialists criticise the artificial intelligence developed by the Asisa subsidiary due to its “poor” and “dangerous” results. The algorithm has been trained only with data from white patients.
It’s still not racism. The article itself says there is a lack of diversity in the training data. Training data will consist of 100% “obvious” pictures of skin cancers which is most books and online images I’ve looked into seems to be majority fair skinned individuals.
“…such algorithms perform worse on black people, which is not due to technical problems, but to a lack of diversity in the training data…”
Calling out things as racist really works to mask what a useful tool this could be to help screen for skin cancers.
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Why is there a lack of robust training data across skin colors? Could it be that people with darker skin colors have less access to cutting edge medical care and research studies? Would be pretty racist.
There is a similar bias in medical literature for genders. Many studies only consider males. That is sexist.
Only if you’re using shitty training data