Estimating Skin Tone and Effects on Classification Performance in Dermatology Datasets

no code implementations • 29 Oct 2019 • Newton M. Kinyanjui, Timothy Odonga, Celia Cintas, Noel C. F. Codella, Rameswar Panda, Prasanna Sattigeri, Kush R. Varshney

We find that the majority of the data in the the two datasets have ITA values between 34. 5{\deg} and 48{\deg}, which are associated with lighter skin, and is consistent with under-representation of darker skinned populations in these datasets.

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