ArticleNPJ digital medicine2025
Evaluating skin tone scales for dermatologic dataset labeling: a prospective-comparative study.
Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Unifying the spectrum: a framework for the meta-analysis of human skin tone scales.Journal of biomedical optics · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Fitzpatrick Skin Type Prompting on Diagnostic Accuracy in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Within-Image Experimental Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Automated Skin Lesion and Cancer Detection Using Computer Vision: A Comprehensive Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Defining Safe Light Intensity Limits of Near-Infrared Illumination Avoiding Skin Heating in Medical Optical Diagnostic Methods.Journal of biophotonics · 2026Article
- Accuracy of Visual Inspection Alone to Assess Joint Effusions of the Hand: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- The cutaneous mirror: leveraging drug-induced skin phenotypes as early visual risk signals for systemic toxicity, a comprehensive review.Frontiers in drug safety and regulation · 2026Review
- Artificial intelligence in three-dimensional total-body photography for skin cancer surveillance.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
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Abstract
Skin tone affects artificial intelligence (AI) performance in dermatology. While labeling datasets for skin tone could improve algorithm generalizability for detecting dermatologic malignancies, large-scale validation of skin tone assessments is lacking. This prospective observational study assessed reliability of subjective tools (Fitzpatrick Skin Type [FST], Monk Skin Tone [MST], Pantone SkinTone Guide) and an objective colorimeter for in-person and photography-based settings to evaluate utility for labeling dermoscopic datasets. Colorimetry (gold standard for color measurement) demonstrated high precision with in-person measurements. Of subjective scales, MST demonstrated slightly tighter clustering in the color space and high repeatability for in-person and photography-based assessments (latter varied by lighting). Dermoscopic image-extracted color values correlated poorly with colorimetry values. For subjective ratings, MST more effectively captured differences in AI melanoma classification scores than FST. Findings underscore that FST is not a proxy for skin tone; an important role remains for skin tone assessment to improve AI performance.
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