ArticleJournal of primary care & community health
Clinical Utility of an AI-powered, Handheld Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy Device on the Diagnosis and Management of Skin Cancer by Primary Care Physicians.
Article in Journal of primary care & community health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06463860 (Retrospective, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Performance of DermDx as an Adjunctive Tool for Primary Care Physicians in the Detection of Skin Cancers), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Retrospective, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Performance of DermDx as an Adjunctive Tool for Primary Care Physicians in the Detection of Skin Cancers
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Opportunities, challenges, and requirements for Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation in Primary Health Care (PHC): a systematic review.BMC primary care · 2025Pooled it
- Enhancing Diagnostic Precision in Primary Care: A Multireader Multicase (MRMC) Study of an AI-Powered Handheld Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy Device for Informed Referral Decisions in Melanoma Evaluation.The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology · 2025Article
- AI and Primary Care: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Screening and novel diagnostic technologies for melanoma: an update.Melanoma management · 2025Review
- Handheld multiphoton and pinhole-free reflectance confocal microscopy enables noninvasive, real-time cross-sectional imaging in skin.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Article
- DERM-SUCCESS FDA Pivotal Study: A Multi-Reader Multi-Case Evaluation of Primary Care Physicians' Skin Cancer Detection Using AI-Enabled Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
- Elastic scattering spectroscopy for intraoperative oral cancer mucosal margin guidance: Initial results from a 104 patient cohort.American journal of otolaryngologyArticle
- Artificial intelligence in primary health care: A bibliometric analysis of publications from 2015 to 2024.Digital healthReview
- Advances in the noninvasive diagnosis of melanoma-40 years beyond the ABCDs.CA: a cancer journal for cliniciansReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPatients with lesions suspicious for skin cancer often present to primary care physicians (PCPs), who may have limited training in skin cancer diagnosis.
objectiveTo measure the impact of an adjunctive handheld device for PCPs that employs elastic scattering spectroscopy (ESS) on the diagnosis and management of skin cancer.
methodsFifty-seven PCPs evaluated 50 clinical images of skin lesions (25 malignant and 25 benign), first without and then with knowledge of the handheld ESS device output, and in each case indicated if a lesion was likely to be benign or malignant.
resultsThe diagnostic sensitivity of the PCPs with and without the use of the ESS device was 88% (95% CI, 84%-92%) and 67% (95% CI, 62%-72%), respectively (
conclusionThe use of the ESS device may have the potential to help improve skin cancer diagnosis and confidence in management decision-making in a primary care setting.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.