Medical Xpress July 21, 2022
An artificial intelligence (AI) system could aid clinicians in assessing psoriasis severity, according to a short report published online June 28 in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
Takashi Okamoto, from the University of Yamanashi in Japan, and colleagues developed a simplified Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) system (Single-Shot PASI) and associated AI models capable of assessing psoriasis severity. Model development used 705 psoriasis images of a patient’s trunk front and back, and 10 images were used to validate the deep learning system.
Thirteen board-certified dermatologists or residents and nine medical students scored test sets without AI assistance and subsequently...