Expert-Level Diagnosis of Nonpigmented Skin Cancer by Combined Convolutional Neural Networks.

Journal: JAMA dermatology
Published Date: Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve expert-level accuracy in the diagnosis of pigmented melanocytic lesions. However, the most common types of skin cancer are nonpigmented and nonmelanocytic, and are more difficult to diagnose.

Authors

  • Philipp Tschandl
    Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Cliff Rosendahl
    School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  • Bengu Nisa Akay
    Department of Dermatology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Giuseppe Argenziano
    Dermatology Unit, University of Campania, Naples, Italy.
  • Andreas Blum
  • Ralph P Braun
    Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Horacio Cabo
  • Jean-Yves Gourhant
    Centre de Dermatologie, Nemours, France.
  • Jürgen Kreusch
  • Aimilios Lallas
  • Jan Lapins
    Department of Dermatology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Ashfaq Marghoob
    Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hauppauge, New York.
  • Scott Menzies
    Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre and Discipline of Dermatology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  • Nina Maria Neuber
    Vienna Dermatologic Imaging Research Group, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • John Paoli
  • Harold S Rabinovitz
    Skin and Cancer Associates, Plantation, Florida.
  • Christoph Rinner
    Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Alon Scope
    Medical Screening Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • H Peter Soyer
    Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Christoph Sinz
    ViDIR Group, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: christoph.sinz@meduniwien.at.at.
  • Luc Thomas
    Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon 1 University, Lyons Cancer Research Center, Lyon, France.
  • Iris Zalaudek
  • Harald Kittler
    ViDIR Group, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: harald.kittler@meduniwien.at.at.

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