FairDisCo: Fairer AI in Dermatology via Disentanglement Contrastive Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10013v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:54:23 GMT
• Title: FairDisCo: Fairer AI in Dermatology via Disentanglement Contrastive Learning
• Authors: Siyi Du, Ben Hers, Nourhan Bayasi, Ghassan Hamarneh, Rafeef Garbi
• Abstract summary: We propose FairDisCo, a disentanglement deep learning framework with contrastive learning. We compare FairDisCo to three fairness methods, namely, resampling, reweighting, and attribute-aware. We adapt two fairness-based metrics DPM and EOM for our multiple classes and sensitive attributes task, highlighting the skin-type bias in skin lesion classification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Deep learning models have achieved great success in automating skin lesion diagnosis. However, the ethnic disparity in these models' predictions, where lesions on darker skin types are usually underrepresented and have lower diagnosis accuracy, receives little attention. In this paper, we propose FairDisCo, a disentanglement deep learning framework with contrastive learning that utilizes an additional network branch to remove sensitive attributes, i.e. skin-type information from representations for fairness and another contrastive branch to enhance feature extraction. We compare FairDisCo to three fairness methods, namely, resampling, reweighting, and attribute-aware, on two newly released skin lesion datasets with different skin types: Fitzpatrick17k and Diverse Dermatology Images (DDI). We adapt two fairness-based metrics DPM and EOM for our multiple classes and sensitive attributes task, highlighting the skin-type bias in skin lesion classification. Extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of FairDisCo, with fairer and superior performance on skin lesion classification tasks.

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