Skin cancer diagnosed by using artificial intelligence on clinical images

In a recent Research Letter in Nature an automated classification of a few selected skin lesions has been published, using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) (Esteva et al, 2017). Convolutional neural network is an important innovation in the field of computer vision. A popular use is for image processing, e.g. applied in face recognition. In the reported study CNN has been applied to a dataset of almost 130,000 clinical images, including some 3,000 dermoscopic images.

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