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ArticleJournal of cutaneous medicine and surgery

The State of Artificial Intelligence in Skin Cancer Publications.

Maxine Joly-Chevrier, Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Laurence Liang, Michael Lesko-Krleza, Philippe Lefrançois

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Article in Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Using the power of artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis and management of nonmelanoma skin cancer.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Maxine Joly-ChevrierFaculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6706-8139
Anne Xuan-Lan NguyenDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Laurence LiangFaculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Michael Lesko-KrlezaDivision of Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Philippe LefrançoisDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) in skin cancer is a promising research field to assist physicians and to provide support to patients remotely. Physicians' awareness to new developments in AI research is important to define the best practices and scope of integrating AI-enabled technologies within a clinical setting.

objectivesTo analyze the characteristics and trends of AI skin cancer publications from dermatology journals.

methodsAI skin cancer publications were retrieved in June 2022 from the Web of Science. Publications were screened by title, abstract, and keywords to assess eligibility. Publications were fully reviewed. Publications were divided between nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), melanoma, and skin cancer studies. The primary measured outcome was the number of citations. The secondary measured outcomes were articles' general characteristics and features related to AI.

resultsA total of 168 articles were included: 25 on NMSC, 77 on melanoma, and 66 on skin cancer. The most common types of skin cancers were melanoma (134, 79.8%), basal cell carcinoma (61, 36.3%), and squamous cell carcinoma (45, 26.9%). All articles were published between 2000 and 2022, with 49 (29.2%) of them being published in 2021. Original studies that developed or assessed an algorithm predominantly used supervised learning (66, 97.0%) and deep neural networks (42, 67.7%). The most used imaging modalities were standard dermoscopy (76, 45.2%) and clinical images (39, 23.2%).

conclusionsMost publications focused on developing or assessing screening technologies with mainly deep neural network algorithms. This indicates the eminent need for dermatologists to label or annotate images used by novel AI systems.

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Basal Cell CarcinomaMelanomaSkin NeoplasmsAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceHumansartificial intelligencebibliometricdeep learningmachine learningskin cancer

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PMID38323537
PMCPMC11015717

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