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Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
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Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually, beginning with an initial clinical screening and followed potentially by dermoscopic analysis, a biopsy and histopathological examination. Automated classification of skin lesions using images is a challenging task owing to the fine-grained variability in the appearance of skin lesions. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show potential for general and highly variable tasks across many fine-grained object categories. Here we demonstrate classification of skin lesions using a single CNN, trained end-to-end from images directly, using only pixels and disease labels as inputs. We train a CNN using a dataset of 129,450 clinical images—two orders of magnitude larger than previous datasets—consisting of 2,032 different diseases. We test its performance against 21 board-certified dermatologists on biopsy-proven clinical images with two critical binary classification use cases: keratinocyte carcinomas versus benign seborrheic keratoses; and malignant melanomas versus benign nevi. The first case represents the identification of the most common cancers, the second represents the identification of the deadliest skin cancer. The CNN achieves performance on par with all tested experts across both tasks, demonstrating an artificial intelligence capable of classifying skin cancer with a level of competence comparable to dermatologists. Outfitted with deep neural networks, mobile devices can potentially extend the reach of dermatologists outside of the clinic. It is projected that 6.3 billion smartphone subscriptions will exist by the year 2021 (ref. 13) and can therefore potentially provide low-cost universal access to vital diagnostic care.
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“Esteva et al. [45] found that a DL network has the same ability to diagnose the disease as twenty-one board-certified dermatologists using 129,450 images of 2032 diseases.”
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“Deep neural networks (LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton 2015) have shown high accuracy at pattern recognition from noisy, complex inputs, including automated detection of diabetic retinopathy from images (Gulshan et al. 2016), skin cancer from mobile phone cameras (Esteva et al. 2017), and the onset of health conditions from electronic medical records (Razavian, Marcus, and Sontag 2016; Lipton et al. 2015”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Esteva, A., Kuprel, B., Novoa, R. A., Ko, J., Swetter, S. M., Blau, H. M., & Thrun, S.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
- Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Esteva, Andre
- Kuprel, Brett
- Novoa, Roberto A.
- Thrun, Sebastian
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2017-01-25
- Volume
- 542
- Issue
- 7639
- Pages
- 115-118
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC8382232
- OpenAlex
- W2581082771
- Semantic Scholar
- e1ec11a1cb3d9745fb18d3bf74247f95a6663d08
- Cited by
- 14,362
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1681 · 2025: 2079 · 2024: 1706 · 2023: 1544 · 2022: 1495 · 2021: 1739 · 2020: 1647 · 2019: 1324 · 2018: 862 · 2017: 266
- FWCI
- 490.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2017-06-29)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001085)
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG009521, R21AG044815, R01AG020961)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS089533)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR063963)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Keywords
- skin cancer classification, skin lesion images, deep convolutional neural networks, melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, seborrheic keratosis, benign nevi, mobile phone imaging, clinical screening, fine-grained image classification
- MeSH terms
- Dermatologists, Automation, Humans, Melanoma, Nevus, Photography, Skin Neoplasms, Reproducibility of Results, Keratinocytes, Neural Networks, Computer, Keratosis, Seborrheic, Cell Phone, Datasets as Topic
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