Author Interviews, Dermatology, Melanoma, Nature, Technology / 23.06.2020
Skin Cancer Recognition Enhanced By Human-Computer Collaboration
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Professor Harald Kittler, MD
ViDIR Group, Department of Dermatology
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What types of skin cancers were assessed? (melanoma, SCC, Merkel etc).
Response: Some researchers believe that AI will make human intelligence dispensable. It is, however, still a matter of debate how exactly AI will influence diagnostic medicine in the future.
The current narrative is focused on a competition between human and artificial intelligence. We sought to shift the direction of this narrative more towards human/AI collaboration. To this end we studied the use-case of skin cancer diagnosis including the most common types of skin cancer such as melanoma, basal cell- and squamous cell carcinoma. The initial idea was to explore the effects of varied representations of AI support across different levels of clinical expertise and to address the question of how humans and machines work together as a team. (more…)