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The Fitzpatrick scale has been criticized for its Eurocentric bias and insufficient representation of global skin color diversity. [9] The scale originally was developed for classifying "white skin" in response to solar radiation, [2] and initially included only four categories focused on white skin, with "brown" and "black" skin types (V and VI) added as an afterthought.
Thomas B. Fitzpatrick (December 19, 1919 – November 16, 2003) was an American dermatologist. He was Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Dermatology Service from 1959 to 1987.
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Olive skin is a human skin tone. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Type IV, and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It generally refers to moderate or lighter tan or brownish skin, and it is often described as having tan, brown, cream, greenish, yellowish, or golden undertones.
Thomas S. Kupper is an American physician, academic, and clinician. His work with clinical and research experience spans dermatology, cutaneous oncology, and immunology.He is the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Professor at Harvard Medical School, and chairs the Departments of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Computer vision researchers initially adopted the Fitzpatrick scale as a metric to evaluate how well a given collection of photos of people sampled the global population. [4] However, the Fitzpatrick scale was developed to predict the risk of skin cancer in lighter-skinned people, and did not initially include darker skin tones at all.
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The dimple sign or Fitzpatrick's sign is a dermatological sign in which lateral pressure on the skin produces a depression. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is associated with dermatofibroma . [ 3 ]