Where Artificial Intelligence Can Take Us in the Management and Understanding of Cancerization Fields.
Carmen Orte CanoMariano SuppaVéronique Del MarmolPublished in: Cancers (2023)
Squamous cell carcinoma and its precursor lesion actinic keratosis are often found together in areas of skin chronically exposed to sun, otherwise called cancerisation fields. The clinical assessment of cancerisation fields and the correct diagnosis of lesions within these fields is usually challenging for dermatologists. The recent adoption of skin cancer diagnostic imaging techniques, particularly LC-OCT, helps clinicians in guiding treatment decisions of cancerization fields in a non-invasive way. The combination of artificial intelligence and non-invasive skin imaging opens up many possibilities as AI can perform tasks impossible for humans in a reasonable amount of time. In this text we review past examples of the application of AI to dermatological images for actinic keratosis/squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis, and we discuss about the prospects of the application of AI for the characterization and management of cancerization fields.
Keyphrases
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- squamous cell carcinoma
- machine learning
- big data
- skin cancer
- high resolution
- optical coherence tomography
- soft tissue
- palliative care
- lymph node metastasis
- working memory
- mass spectrometry
- wound healing
- smoking cessation
- locally advanced
- rectal cancer
- simultaneous determination