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Black researchers in medical AI

Dallas and Austin · dermatology

Adewole “Ade” Adamson, MD

Adamson trained in dermatology at UT Southwestern and cares for people at high risk for melanoma at UT Austin. In 2018, he and Avery Smith asked what happens when skin-disease algorithms learn from images that underrepresent darker skin. A tool can look accurate overall while giving some patients less reliable answers.

Read their JAMA Dermatology article ↗
UT Austin · computer science

Sanmi Koyejo, PhD

Koyejo earned his doctorate at UT Austin. At Stanford, his research on trustworthy machine learning includes medical imaging. He has also served as board president of Black in AI, a community supporting Black researchers across the field.

Stanford research profile ↗

Technology & AI checklist

  1. Ask what a tool does with the information you provide.

  2. Check an AI answer against an original reliable source.

  3. Test usefulness, accessibility, and total cost before adopting a tool.

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