Konstantinos Liopyris, Cristian Navarrete-Dechent, Michael A Marchetti, Veronica Rotemberg, Zoe Apalla, Giuseppe Argenziano, Andreas Blum, Ralph P Braun, Cristina Carrera, Noel C F Codella, Marc Combalia, Stephen W Dusza, David A Gutman, Brian Helba, Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Natalia Jaimes, Harald Kittler, Kivanc Kose, Aimilios Lallas, Caterina Longo, Josep Malvehy, Scott Menzies, Kelly C Nelson, John Paoli, Susana Puig, Harold S Rabinovitz, Ayelet Rishpon, Teresa Russo, Alon Scope, H Peter Soyer, Jennifer A Stein, Willhelm Stolz, Dimitrios Sgouros, Alexander J Stratigos, David L Swanson, Luc Thomas, Philipp Tschandl, Iris Zalaudek, Jochen Weber, Allan C Halpern, Ashfaq A Marghoob
Dermoscopy aids in melanoma detection; however, agreement on dermoscopic features, including those of high clinical relevance, remains poor. Herein we attempted to evaluate agreement among experts on 'exemplar images' not only for the presence of melanocytic-specific features but also for spatial localization. This was a cross-sectional, multicenter, observational study. Dermoscopy images exhibiting at least one of 31 melanocytic-specific features were submitted by 25 world experts as 'exemplars'. Using a web-based platform that allows for image mark-up of specific contrast-defined regions (superpixels), 20 expert readers annotated 248 dermoscopic images in collections of 62 images...
September 7, 2023: Journal of Investigative Dermatology