构建皮肤科数据全景图,揭示人工智能医疗中的数据偏见与空白
A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities
- 建立多模态数据框架SkinMap,整合超110万张皮肤图像
- 发现数据增长停滞于信息新颖性,深肤色和儿童仅占5.8%和3.0%
- 可定位临床覆盖盲区,指导针对性数据采集
人工智能在皮肤科的应用有望实现医疗普惠,但模型可靠性依赖数据质量与全面性。尽管公开皮肤图像数据集快速增长,领域内仍缺乏量化指标评估新数据集是否拓展临床覆盖或仅重复已有内容。本文提出SkinMap,首个对整个皮肤科数据基础进行综合审计的多模态框架。该框架将公开数据集统一为包含超过110万张皮肤病变图像的可查询语义地图,量化分析(i)随时间的信息新颖性,(ii)数据集冗余度,(iii)人群与诊断层面的代表性缺口。尽管数据规模呈指数增长,信息新颖性已趋于平缓:部分类型如白皙肤色常见肿瘤被密集覆盖,而深肤色(Fitzpatrick V-VI)仅占5.8%,儿童患者仅3.0%,许多罕见病及表型组合仍严重缺失。SkinMap为识别覆盖盲区提供基础设施,助力战略性数据采集。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The adoption of artificial intelligence in dermatology promises democratized access to healthcare, but model reliability depends on the quality and comprehensiveness of the data fueling these models. Despite rapid growth in publicly available dermatology images, the field lacks quantitative key performance indicators to measure whether new datasets expand clinical coverage or merely replicate what is already known. Here we present SkinMap, a multi-modal framework for the first comprehensive audit of the field's entire data basis. We unify the publicly available dermatology datasets into a single, queryable semantic atlas comprising more than 1.1 million images of skin conditions and quantify (i) informational novelty over time, (ii) dataset redundancy, and (iii) representation gaps across demographics and diagnoses. Despite exponential growth in dataset sizes, informational novelty across time has somewhat plateaued: Some clusters, such as common neoplasms on fair skin, are densely populated, while underrepresented skin types and many rare diseases remain unaddressed. We further identify structural gaps in coverage: Darker skin tones (Fitzpatrick V-VI) constitute only 5.8% of images and pediatric patients only 3.0%, while many rare diseases and phenotype combinations remain sparsely represented. SkinMap provides infrastructure to measure blind spots and steer strategic data acquisition toward undercovered regions of clinical space.
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