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October 03, 2023
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Navigating the ethics of removing benign melanocytic nevi in children

Dermatologists should avoid the removal of benign nevi from children that are not of a consenting age, regardless of the parents’ preferences, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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August 16, 2019
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Avoid skin markings in dermoscopic images for analysis, training by convolutional neural networks

Melanoma probability scores increased due to standard skin markings from surgical ink and were associated with a significant reduction in the specificity of a convolutional neural network trained in dermoscopic images, according to an analysis in JAMA Dermatology.