AI in Healthcare July 12, 2020
Healthcare AI watchers would be unwise to overlook dermatology, as it is a medical specialty “at the precipice of an artificial intelligence revolution.”
Those are the words of dermatological researchers at UCLA who reviewed studies published on the subject over the past five years.
Along with aggregating projects that applied the latest AI advances to diagnosis and treatment, they looked for work with good potential for adoption by clinicians.
The team’s report is running online ahead of print as a letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Lead author Ernest Lee, MD, PhD, and colleagues found many studies in the recent literature focused on image analysis and classification of skin lesions—no surprise since digital...