AI melanoma detection software achieves 100% sensitivity rate
AI skin cancer detection has come on in leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. Presented at this year’s European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress (EADV) (11–14 October, Berlin, Germany), impressive results have emerged from a study using AI software to detect skin cancer.
AI isn’t new to the game when it comes to skin cancer detection, but few AI tools are actually approved for clinical application and even fewer have reached the melanoma detection rate that this latest tool claims to achieve: 100%. The study presented at EADV took part over a 2.5-year period, involving 22,356 participants with suspected skin cancers. Not only did the software achieve an 100% detection rate for melanoma (59/59 identified cases), but it was also highly sensitive in detecting all skin cancers (99.5% -189/190 identified cases) as well as pre-cancerous lesions (92.5% – 541/585).