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Inclusive Imaging Education: The Role of Skin Color in Dermatological Diagnosis​
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Cameras struggle with dark skin. Here’s how Apple, Samsung and Google phones stack up dark-skin-tech.pdf (2022)​

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Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2024)​

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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018)​

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Medical imaging fails dark skin: Researchers fixed it | ScienceDaily (2023, Johns Hopkins) Medical imaging struggles to read dark skin. Researchers say they’ve found a way to make it easier | CNN Business (same story, different take)​

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What We Mean When We Say "Skin of Color" in Dermatology: A Closer Look with Raj Chovatiya, MD, PhD, MSCI (2025)​

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Researchers shed light on skin tone bias in breast cancer imaging (SPIE, 2024)​

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TECNO Upgrades Universal Tone with Expanded Skin Tone Color Card for More Inclusive and Advanced Mobile Imaging (2025)​

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Skin Tone and Pulse Oximetry | Harvard Medical School (2022)​

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AI Shows Dermatology Educational Materials Often Lack Darker Skin Tones | Stanford HAI (2023)​

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Dermatologists call out gap in medical training for patients of color (2022)​

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Racial bias exists in photo-based medical diagnosis despite AI help - Northwestern Now (2024)​

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Skin of Color Society News Releases about scholarship program News Releases - Skin of Color Society (2025)​

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Dark skin tones in rheumatology educational images up 40% since 2020 (2024)​

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Medical student's illustrations featuring Black people, skin tones spark national project - ABC News (2021)​

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KatuChef US V12 B5 16x9 VO1 Consequences of the dermatology industry’s lack of diversity (CBS Mornings) (2023)

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