Crowdsourcing Dermatology Images with Google Search Ads: Creating a Real-World Skin Condition Dataset

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Main Authors: Ward, Abbi, Li, Jimmy, Wang, Julie, Lakshminarasimhan, Sriram, Carrick, Ashley, Campana, Bilson, Hartford, Jay, S, Pradeep Kumar, Tiyasirichokchai, Tiya, Virmani, Sunny, Wong, Renee, Matias, Yossi, Corrado, Greg S., Webster, Dale R., Siegel, Dawn, Lin, Steven, Ko, Justin, Karthikesalingam, Alan, Semturs, Christopher, Rao, Pooja
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author Ward, Abbi
Li, Jimmy
Wang, Julie
Lakshminarasimhan, Sriram
Carrick, Ashley
Campana, Bilson
Hartford, Jay
S, Pradeep Kumar
Tiyasirichokchai, Tiya
Virmani, Sunny
Wong, Renee
Matias, Yossi
Corrado, Greg S.
Webster, Dale R.
Siegel, Dawn
Lin, Steven
Ko, Justin
Karthikesalingam, Alan
Semturs, Christopher
Rao, Pooja
author_facet Ward, Abbi
Li, Jimmy
Wang, Julie
Lakshminarasimhan, Sriram
Carrick, Ashley
Campana, Bilson
Hartford, Jay
S, Pradeep Kumar
Tiyasirichokchai, Tiya
Virmani, Sunny
Wong, Renee
Matias, Yossi
Corrado, Greg S.
Webster, Dale R.
Siegel, Dawn
Lin, Steven
Ko, Justin
Karthikesalingam, Alan
Semturs, Christopher
Rao, Pooja
contents Background: Health datasets from clinical sources do not reflect the breadth and diversity of disease in the real world, impacting research, medical education, and artificial intelligence (AI) tool development. Dermatology is a suitable area to develop and test a new and scalable method to create representative health datasets. Methods: We used Google Search advertisements to invite contributions to an open access dataset of images of dermatology conditions, demographic and symptom information. With informed contributor consent, we describe and release this dataset containing 10,408 images from 5,033 contributions from internet users in the United States over 8 months starting March 2023. The dataset includes dermatologist condition labels as well as estimated Fitzpatrick Skin Type (eFST) and Monk Skin Tone (eMST) labels for the images. Results: We received a median of 22 submissions/day (IQR 14-30). Female (66.72%) and younger (52% < age 40) contributors had a higher representation in the dataset compared to the US population, and 32.6% of contributors reported a non-White racial or ethnic identity. Over 97.5% of contributions were genuine images of skin conditions. Dermatologist confidence in assigning a differential diagnosis increased with the number of available variables, and showed a weaker correlation with image sharpness (Spearman's P values <0.001 and 0.01 respectively). Most contributions were short-duration (54% with onset < 7 days ago ) and 89% were allergic, infectious, or inflammatory conditions. eFST and eMST distributions reflected the geographical origin of the dataset. The dataset is available at github.com/google-research-datasets/scin . Conclusion: Search ads are effective at crowdsourcing images of health conditions. The SCIN dataset bridges important gaps in the availability of representative images of common skin conditions.
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spellingShingle Crowdsourcing Dermatology Images with Google Search Ads: Creating a Real-World Skin Condition Dataset
Ward, Abbi
Li, Jimmy
Wang, Julie
Lakshminarasimhan, Sriram
Carrick, Ashley
Campana, Bilson
Hartford, Jay
S, Pradeep Kumar
Tiyasirichokchai, Tiya
Virmani, Sunny
Wong, Renee
Matias, Yossi
Corrado, Greg S.
Webster, Dale R.
Siegel, Dawn
Lin, Steven
Ko, Justin
Karthikesalingam, Alan
Semturs, Christopher
Rao, Pooja
Computers and Society
Background: Health datasets from clinical sources do not reflect the breadth and diversity of disease in the real world, impacting research, medical education, and artificial intelligence (AI) tool development. Dermatology is a suitable area to develop and test a new and scalable method to create representative health datasets. Methods: We used Google Search advertisements to invite contributions to an open access dataset of images of dermatology conditions, demographic and symptom information. With informed contributor consent, we describe and release this dataset containing 10,408 images from 5,033 contributions from internet users in the United States over 8 months starting March 2023. The dataset includes dermatologist condition labels as well as estimated Fitzpatrick Skin Type (eFST) and Monk Skin Tone (eMST) labels for the images. Results: We received a median of 22 submissions/day (IQR 14-30). Female (66.72%) and younger (52% < age 40) contributors had a higher representation in the dataset compared to the US population, and 32.6% of contributors reported a non-White racial or ethnic identity. Over 97.5% of contributions were genuine images of skin conditions. Dermatologist confidence in assigning a differential diagnosis increased with the number of available variables, and showed a weaker correlation with image sharpness (Spearman's P values <0.001 and 0.01 respectively). Most contributions were short-duration (54% with onset < 7 days ago ) and 89% were allergic, infectious, or inflammatory conditions. eFST and eMST distributions reflected the geographical origin of the dataset. The dataset is available at github.com/google-research-datasets/scin . Conclusion: Search ads are effective at crowdsourcing images of health conditions. The SCIN dataset bridges important gaps in the availability of representative images of common skin conditions.
title Crowdsourcing Dermatology Images with Google Search Ads: Creating a Real-World Skin Condition Dataset
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18545