Explainable AI consists in developing models allowing interaction between decision systems and humans by making the decisions understandable. We propose a case study for skin lesion diagnosis showing how it is possible to provide explanations of deep neural network trained label lesions.

Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers, and its early detection can have a huge impact on outcomes. Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks, perform well in processing massive amounts data, image data classifying skin cancer. In this paper, networks are mainly used to diagnose classify 7 types lesions, including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, melanocytic nevus, actinic k...

Cutaneous malignant melanoma is one of the most frequent types of cancer in the world but if a malignant lesion is detected early, it can be cured without complication. Automated skin lesion analysis attempts to accomplish early detection of malignancy using digital dermoscopic images. We address two challenging applications in automated analysis of dermoscopic skin lesion images: lesion segmen...

Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects the skin, muscle, and lung. The pathogenesis of skin inflammation in DM is not well understood. We present a 40-year-old male who presented with four months history of generalized skin lesion, pain and weakness. He had elevated transaminases with detectable muscle weakness. This case highlights the need to consider dermatomyositi...

Skin infections are a common problem among athletes at all levels of competition; among wrestlers, 8.5% of all adverse events are caused by skin infections. Wrestlers are at risk because of the constant skin-to-skin contact required during practice and competition. The most common infections transmitted among high school wrestlers include fungal infections (e.g., ringworm), the viral infection ...

BACKGROUND In spite of leprosy being a disease of nerves, ROM therapy for single skin lesion leprosy was based on clinical trials without much evidence-based studies of nerve pathology. The present study was undertaken to compare the histology of skin and nerve in single skin lesion leprosy, and to assess the scientific rationale and justification of single dose ROM therapy. METHODS Twenty-se...

Segmentation of skin lesions from dermoscopic images plays an essential role in the early detection cancer. However, lesion segmentation is still challenging due to artifacts such as indistinguishability between and normal skin, hair on reflections obtained dermoscopy images. In this study, edge attention network (ET-Net) combining guidance module (EGM) weighted aggregation added 2D volumetric ...

A high prevalence of skin pigmented lesions of 15% was recently reported in coral trout Plectropomus leopardus, a commercially important marine fish, inhabiting the Great Barrier Reef. Herein, fish were sampled at two offshore sites, characterised by high and low lesion prevalence. A transcriptomic approach using the suppressive subtractive hybridisation (SSH) method was used to analyse the dif...

CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 28-year-old man referred to the dermatology clinic with an asymptomatic firm, well demarcated violaceous plaque with bumpy surface on his right medial upper shin since two years ago. At first, the lesion was an erythematous patch and gradually became like a plaque. He had pain and sensation of heaviness in his leg (Figure 1). He had no other skin lesions and was otherwis...