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MIT: Doctors Have More Difficulty Diagnosing Disease When Looking at Images of Darker Skin
February 05, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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Dermatologists and general practitioners are somewhat less accurate in diagnosing disease in darker skin, a new study finds. Used correctly, AI may be able to help.

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By Anne Trafton, MIT News

When diagnosing skin diseases based solely on images of a patient's skin, doctors do not perform as well when t . . .

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