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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated success in computational pathology (CPath) for disease detection, biomarker classification, and prognosis prediction. However, its potential to learn unintended demographic biases, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shengjia Chen , Ruchika Verma , Kevin Clare , Jannes Jegminat , Eugenia Alleva , Kuan-lin Huang , Brandon Veremis , Thomas Fuchs , Gabriele Campanella

This paper addresses the problem of automatically detecting human skin in images without reliance on color information. A primary motivation of the work has been to achieve results that are consistent across the full range of skin tones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Xu , Abhijit Sarkar , A. Lynn Abbott

Skin tone recognition and generation play important roles in model fairness, healthcare, and generative AI, yet they remain challenging due to the lack of comprehensive datasets and robust methodologies. Compared to other human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haoming Lu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in skin disease diagnosis has improved significantly, but a major concern is that these models frequently show biased performance across subgroups, especially regarding sensitive attributes such as skin color.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Nusrat Munia , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

There are a lot of hidden dangers in the change of human skin conditions, such as the sunburn caused by long-time exposure to ultraviolet radiation, which not only has aesthetic impact causing psychological depression and lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Min Chen , Ping Zhou , Di Wu , Long Hu , Mohammad Mehedi Hassan , Atif Alamri

The rise of Artificial Intelligence creates great promise in the field of medical discovery, diagnostics and patient management. However, the vast complexity of all medical domains require a more complex approach that combines machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dimitrios P. Panagoulias , Evridiki Tsoureli-Nikita , Maria Virvou , George A. Tsihrintzis

In recent years, the rapid development of AI systems has brought about the benefits of intelligent services but also concerns about security and reliability. By fostering appropriate user reliance on an AI system, both complementary team…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Gaole He , Patrick Hemmer , Michael Vössing , Max Schemmer , Ujwal Gadiraju

Federated learning (FL) has shown success in collaboratively training a model among decentralized data resources without directly sharing privacy-sensitive training data. Despite recent advances, non-IID (non-independent and identically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cheng-Chang Tsai , Kai-Wen Cheng , Chun-Shien Lu

This paper investigates the potential usage of large text-to-image (LTI) models for the automated diagnosis of a few skin conditions with rarity or a serious lack of annotated datasets. As the input to the LTI model, we provide the targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Sajith Rajapaksa , Jean Marie Uwabeza Vianney , Renell Castro , Farzad Khalvati , Shubhra Aich

Deep learning based diagnostic AI systems based on medical images are starting to provide similar performance as human experts. However these data hungry complex systems are inherently black boxes and therefore slow to be adopted for high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Swarnava Bhattacharyya , Umapada Pal , Tapabrata Chakraborti

Early and accurate melanoma detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence AI have shown promise in this area, but the technologys effectiveness across diverse skin tones remains a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Laura N Montoya , Jennafer Shae Roberts , Belen Sanchez Hidalgo

Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) impose severe health and socioeconomic burdens in impoverished tropical communities. Yet, advancements in AI-driven diagnostic support are hindered by data scarcity, particularly for underrepresented…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown remarkable promise in dermatology, offering accurate and non-invasive diagnosis of skin cancer. While extensive research has addressed skin tone-related bias, gender bias in dermatologic AI remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Mingcheng Zhu , Mingxuan Liu , Han Yuan , Yilin Ning , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu , Nan Liu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based image analysis has an immense potential to support diagnostic histopathology, including cancer diagnostics. However, developing supervised AI methods requires large-scale annotated datasets. A potentially…

According to PBS, nearly one-third of Americans lack access to primary care services, and another forty percent delay going to avoid medical costs. As a result, many diseases are left undiagnosed and untreated, even if the disease shows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Allen Yang , Edward Yang

In medical image diagnosis, fairness has become increasingly crucial. Without bias mitigation, deploying unfair AI would harm the interests of the underprivileged population and potentially tear society apart. Recent research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching-Hao Chiu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Cutaneous malignancies demand early detection for favorable outcomes, yet current diagnostics suffer from inter-observer variability and access disparities. While AI shows promise, existing dermatological systems are limited by homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sher Khan , Raz Muhammad , Adil Hussain , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Rashid

AI-based systems have achieved high accuracy in skin disease diagnostics but often exhibit biases across demographic groups, leading to inequitable healthcare outcomes and diminished patient trust. Most existing bias mitigation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Gelei Xu , Yuying Duan , Zheyuan Liu , Xueyang Li , Meng Jiang , Michael Lemmon , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Dermoscopic skin images are often obtained with different imaging devices, under varying acquisition conditions. In this work, instead of attempting to perform intensity and color normalization, we propose to leverage computational color…

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning (DL) and vision large language models (VLLMs), in skin disease diagnosis, the need for interpretability becomes crucial. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuhao Shen , Liyuan Sun , Yan Xu , Wenbin Liu , Shuping Zhang , Shawn Afvari , Zhongyi Han , Jiaoyan Song , Yongzhi Ji , Tao Lu , Xiaonan He , Xin Gao , Juexiao Zhou