This article reviews epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis and diagnosis of melanoma.
Data on melanoma from the majority of countries show a rapid increase of the incidence of …

Background Melanoma has one of the fastest rising incidence rates of any cancer. It
accounts for a small percentage of skin cancer cases but is responsible for the majority of …

Prior skin image datasets have not addressed patient-level information obtained from
multiple skin lesions from the same patient. Though artificial intelligence classification …

A reported 96,480 people were diagnosed with melanoma in the United States in 2019,
leading to 7230 reported deaths. Early-stage identification of suspicious pigmented lesions …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Clinical and histopathologic features of childhood melanoma are poorly
characterized. Atypical clinical presentations and ambiguous microscopic findings may …

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 …

AI image classification algorithms have shown promising results when applied to skin
cancer detection. Most public skin cancer image datasets are comprised of dermoscopic …

Melanoma is currently the fifth most common cancer in the United States, resulting in more
than 9000 deaths each year. Despite numerous improvements in the management of …

Importance Understanding the contribution of the ugly duckling sign (a nevus that is
obviously different from the others in a given individual) in intrapatient comparative analysis …