Racism is embedded into the health industry in a subconscious level, influencing people in a subconscious level and backed by institutional policies. We set out to develop a machine learning algorithm to detect cancerous melanoma in a patient's skin, ensuring that the results of this system remain fair and consistent regardless of the patient's ethnicity or origin. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) yielded 79.8% accuracy, the highest of the algorithms we tested, there's still room for improvement, and we believe that further research in this subject should be done.

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Creator

• Marcos Fernandez, Javier
• Tulig, Conrad C.
• Kittler, Charles V.
• Jackson, Olajumoke E.

Subject

• Health
• Computing
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050621-094300
• 22731

Advisor

• Smith, Therese Mary

Year

• 2021

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2021-05-06

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-29