Creating an Empirical Dermatology Dataset Through Crowdsourcing With Web Search Advertisements.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health datasets from clinical sources do not reflect the breadth and diversity of disease, impacting research, medical education, and artificial intelligence tool development. Assessments of novel crowdsourcing methods to create health datasets are needed.

Objective

To evaluate if web search advertisements (ads) are effective at creating a diverse and representative dermatology image dataset.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective observational survey study, conducted from March to November 2023, used Google Search ads to invite internet users in the US to contribute images of dermatology conditions with demographic and symptom information to the Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN) open access dataset. Ads were displayed against dermatology-rela

SUBMITTER: Ward A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature