AI Versus Dermatologists At Diagnosing Skin Cancer: Here Are The Results

Is CNN better then dermatologists at detecting malignant melanomas? No, not CNN, the cable news network, but convolutional neural network (CNN), which is a type of AI or artificial intelligence. To answer this question, a team of researchers from the University of Heidelberg, the University of Göttingen, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center pitted dermatologist versus computer in a study published in the journal the Annals of Oncology. In one corner were 58 dermatologists from 17 countries. Seventeen (29.3%) described themselves as'beginners' (with less than 2 years of experience), 11 (19%) as'skilled' (2–5 years of experience) and 30 (51.7%) as'expert' (greater than 5 years of experience) in dermoscopy, which is using a magnifying device to examine skin lesions.