Background Studies have revealed a lack of representation of skin of colour patients in
academic sources of dermatologic diseases, including databases. This visual racism has …

Among the 159 studies, only 8 (5.0%) reported subject race and/or ethnicity, with 7/8 studies
including White patients. Only 1 study explicitly included Black, Native American, or Pacific …

Objective: Clinical applications of machine learning are promising as a tool to improve
patient outcomes through assisting diagnoses, treatment, and analyzing risk factors for …

Extensive research has demonstrated that skin of colour is underrepresented in clinical
images within North American dermatologic educational resources. The lack of diversity of …

Dermoscopy can be a useful tool to evaluate skin of color for general dermatologic diseases;
however, it does require practitioners to be aware of many points of difference from patients …

Background: Representation of skin of color (SOC) among publicly available images has not
been thoroughly investigated. Purpose: Elucidate the discrepancy between SOC …

Vermont primary care practitioners are less likely to have experience diagnosing dark skin
tones given that the state population is 94.2% white. Only 4.5% of images in general …

Using over 40 million responses from the weekly multiple-choice New England Journal of
Medicine Image Challenge, we aimed to investigate the differences in representation and …

Methods: A literature review was conducted to determine current skin color typing systems
used by clinicians in healthcare. Results: The principal skin color typing systems used in …

We read with interest the article by Passby (2021) showing substantial underrepresentation
of skin of colour images in best-selling dermatology textbooks. This underrepresentation …