Giving doctors an AI-powered head start on skin cancer

Detection of melanoma and a range of other skin diseases will be faster and more accurate with a new AI-powered tool that analyzes multiple imaging types simultaneously, developed by an international team of researchers led by Monash University.

Featured in an article published in Nature Medicine, PanDerm is one of the first AI models built specifically to assist with real-world dermatological medical practice by analyzing multiple types of images, including close-up photos, dermoscopic images, pathology slides, and total body photographs.

A series of evaluations showed PanDerm improved skin cancer diagnosis accuracy by 11% when used by doctors. The model helped non-dermatologist health care professionals improve diagnostic accuracy on various other skin conditions by 16.5%.

It also showed the ability to detect skin cancer early, identifying concerning lesions before clinician detection.

Trained on more than 2 million skin images, data for the model was sourced from 11 institutions in multiple countries, across four types of medical images.

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