Veronica Rotemberg, M.D., PH.D.
Tên dự án
Quantifying the Impact of Skin Tone on Diagnostic Prediction
Giải thưởng được đặt tên
Quỹ tưởng niệm Vic Fazio
Chức vụ
Giám đốc Chương trình Tin học Tow Foundation tại Dịch vụ Da liễu
Tổ chức
Trung tâm Ung thư Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
“Tại sao” của tôi
I spent my first year as a physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. During this time, I witnessed firsthand how impactful cancer research is on the lives of patients and their families impacted from cancer. This led to my pursual of a career in cancer research, right back where I started, but this time as a physician scientist in dermatology research.
Nhiệm vụ của tôi
As a dermatologist, our clinical mission is to detect cancer as early as possible, without causing undue harm. Research in early detection, including how to improve early detection of skin cancer and reduce potential harms of screening or biases in screening tools, will directly impact our dermatology patients and our profession.
Tổng quan nghiên cứu
Over the course of this project, we will research how to objectively measure skin tone in a reproducible way, how to label skin tone at scale and how skin tone affects artificial intelligence performance for skin cancer detection. We hope that this will help us better understand when and how to use automated tools for skin cancer detection, and what types of information will make those tools work better in a generalizable way.
Tại sao vấn đề tài trợ
As a junior faculty physician scientist, funding from the Prevent Cancer Foundation will be critical toward building collaborations for long-term scientific endeavors and laying the groundwork for a fulfilling and impactful research career.
Niềm hy vọng của tôi
I hope that we will be better able to understand potential bias in artificial intelligence algorithms for skin cancer detection after this project is completed.