Excellent, detailed article about a new much more inclusive Skin Tone scale developed by Dr. Ellis Monk working with Google to provide “a fuller range of darker skin tones than the cruder tools currently used” to train AI data sets in medical situations, and, more urgently, to fix pulse oximeters that don’t work as well on people of color. Very sharp read:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/05/unbiased-pulse-oximeters-researchers-need-better-way-to-measure-skin-tone/
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