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Researchers from MIT have discovered that doctors underperform when diagnosing skin diseases in patients with darker skin based on image assessment. Their study included over a 1,000 dermatologists and general practitioners, revealing that dermatologists accurately identified diseases on images around 38% of the time, but their success rate dropped to 34% when it came to…

A study conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that doctors and dermatologists accomplish lower diagnostic accuracy rates when examining images of darker skin tones compared to lighter ones. Technologically-assisted diagnosis offered greater improvements when assessing lighter skin. More than 1,000 practitioners, including dermatologists and general practitioners, categorized an array of 364…

A study conducted by MIT researchers has discovered that doctors have trouble accurately diagnosing skin diseases in people with darker skin based solely on images. The study consisted of more than 1,000 dermatologists and general practitioners and the results found that dermatologists accurately diagnosed about 38% of images examined. However, when considering those with darker…

A study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) involving over 1,000 doctors, including dermatologists and general practitioners, revealed that accuracy of diagnosing skin diseases based on images is lower when the patient has darker skin. Dermatologists correctly identified 38% of the images they viewed, but this rate dropped to 34% when the images displayed darker…

AI technology could help improve doctors' accuracy when diagnosing skin diseases in individuals with darker skin, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found. The study involved over 1,000 dermatologists and general practitioners, with dermatologists correctly identifying roughly 38% of skin conditions seen in images, but this figure dropped to 34% where patients had…