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Neural Network Could Help Clinicians Look for

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The researchers trained their method to identify pre-cancerous skin lesions with a database of 33,980 images, including photographs of backgrounds, skin, and suspicious lesions. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 17, 2021, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.R. Soenksen at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "Using deep learning for dermatologist-level detection of suspicious pigmented skin lesions from wide-field images."

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L.R. Soenksen <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2021)

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