Investigating the Quality of DermaMNIST and Fitzpatrick17k Dermatological Image Datasets

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Main Authors: Abhishek, Kumar, Jain, Aditi, Hamarneh, Ghassan
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author Abhishek, Kumar
Jain, Aditi
Hamarneh, Ghassan
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Jain, Aditi
Hamarneh, Ghassan
contents The remarkable progress of deep learning in dermatological tasks has brought us closer to achieving diagnostic accuracies comparable to those of human experts. However, while large datasets play a crucial role in the development of reliable deep neural network models, the quality of data therein and their correct usage are of paramount importance. Several factors can impact data quality, such as the presence of duplicates, data leakage across train-test partitions, mislabeled images, and the absence of a well-defined test partition. In this paper, we conduct meticulous analyses of three popular dermatological image datasets: DermaMNIST, its source HAM10000, and Fitzpatrick17k, uncovering these data quality issues, measure the effects of these problems on the benchmark results, and propose corrections to the datasets. Besides ensuring the reproducibility of our analysis, by making our analysis pipeline and the accompanying code publicly available, we aim to encourage similar explorations and to facilitate the identification and addressing of potential data quality issues in other large datasets.
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spellingShingle Investigating the Quality of DermaMNIST and Fitzpatrick17k Dermatological Image Datasets
Abhishek, Kumar
Jain, Aditi
Hamarneh, Ghassan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The remarkable progress of deep learning in dermatological tasks has brought us closer to achieving diagnostic accuracies comparable to those of human experts. However, while large datasets play a crucial role in the development of reliable deep neural network models, the quality of data therein and their correct usage are of paramount importance. Several factors can impact data quality, such as the presence of duplicates, data leakage across train-test partitions, mislabeled images, and the absence of a well-defined test partition. In this paper, we conduct meticulous analyses of three popular dermatological image datasets: DermaMNIST, its source HAM10000, and Fitzpatrick17k, uncovering these data quality issues, measure the effects of these problems on the benchmark results, and propose corrections to the datasets. Besides ensuring the reproducibility of our analysis, by making our analysis pipeline and the accompanying code publicly available, we aim to encourage similar explorations and to facilitate the identification and addressing of potential data quality issues in other large datasets.
title Investigating the Quality of DermaMNIST and Fitzpatrick17k Dermatological Image Datasets
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14497