The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs

DS Rigel, J Russak, R Friedman - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Early detection of malignant melanoma remains the key factor in lowering mortality from this
cancer. Recognizing the importance of this issue 25 years ago, our group at New York …

Health system costs of skin cancer and cost-effectiveness of skin cancer prevention and screening: a systematic review

LG Gordon, D Rowell - European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The objective of this study was to review the literature for malignant melanoma, basal and
squamous cell carcinomas to understand:(a) national estimates of the direct health system …

Cost-effectiveness of artificial intelligence as a decision-support system applied to the detection and grading of melanoma, dental caries, and diabetic retinopathy

JG Rossi, N Rojas-Perilla, J Krois… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To assess the cost-effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) for supporting
clinicians in detecting and grading diseases in dermatology, dentistry, and ophthalmology …

FF-UNet: a U-shaped deep convolutional neural network for multimodal biomedical image segmentation

A Iqbal, M Sharif, MA Khan, W Nisar, M Alhaisoni - Cognitive Computation, 2022 - Springer
Automatic multimodal image segmentation is considered a challenging research area in the
biomedical field. U-shaped models have led to an enormous breakthrough in a large …

A comparative study of features selection for skin lesion detection from dermoscopic images

R Javed, MSM Rahim, T Saba, A Rehman - Network Modeling Analysis in …, 2020 - Springer
Melanoma is rare and mainly considered as the dangerous category of skin cancer. Many
researchers proposed diverse efficient techniques for melanoma detection. The main focus …

Strategies for early melanoma detection: Approaches to the patient with nevi

AG Goodson, D Grossman - Journal of the American Academy of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Given its propensity to metastasize and the lack of effective therapies for most patients with
advanced disease, early detection of melanoma is a clinical imperative. Although there are …

Automatic imaging system with decision support for inspection of pigmented skin lesions and melanoma diagnosis

JF Alcón, C Ciuhu, W Ten Kate… - IEEE journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe an automatic system for inspection of pigmented skin lesions and
melanoma diagnosis, which supports images of skin lesions acquired using a conventional …

Skin cancer screening: recommendations for data-driven screening guidelines and a review of the US Preventive Services Task Force controversy

MM Johnson, SA Leachman, LG Aspinwall… - Melanoma …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Melanoma is usually apparent on the skin and readily detected by trained medical providers
using a routine total body skin examination, yet this malignancy is responsible for the …

Screening, early detection, and trends for melanoma: current status (2000-2006) and future directions

AC Geller, SM Swetter, K Brooks, MF Demierre… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the past 5 years, there have been notable strides toward the earlier recognition and
discovery of melanoma, including new technologies to complement and augment the clinical …

Epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, and early detection of melanoma

SC Azoury, JR Lange - Surgical Clinics, 2014 - surgical.theclinics.com
Although melanoma accounts for less than 5% of all skin cancers diagnosed, the disease
burden of melanoma is significant, with an estimated 50,000 deaths annually worldwide. 1 …