Reply to the letter to the editor: 'Deep learning outperformed 11 pathologists in the classification of histopathological melanoma images'

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¹ National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
² Department of Dermatology, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Skin Cancer Unit, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen and National Center for Pleura and Peritoneum, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁶ Core Facility Unit Light Microscopy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ Private Laboratory of Dermatohistopathology, Mönchhofstraße 52, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁸ National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: titus.brinker@dkfz.de.

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Achim Hekler et al. Eur J Cancer. 2020 May.

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. 2020 May:130:262-264.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2019.12.024. Epub 2020 Jan 30.

¹ National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
² Department of Dermatology, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Skin Cancer Unit, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen and National Center for Pleura and Peritoneum, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁶ Core Facility Unit Light Microscopy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ Private Laboratory of Dermatohistopathology, Mönchhofstraße 52, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁸ National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: titus.brinker@dkfz.de.

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Deep learning outperformed 11 pathologists in the classification of histopathological melanoma images.
Hekler A, Utikal JS, Enk AH, Solass W, Schmitt M, Klode J, Schadendorf D, Sondermann W, Franklin C, Bestvater F, Flaig MJ, Krahl D, von Kalle C, Fröhling S, Brinker TJ. Hekler A, et al. Eur J Cancer. 2019 Sep;118:91-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2019.06.012. Epub 2019 Jul 18. Eur J Cancer. 2019. PMID: 31325876
Re: Deep learning outperformed 11 pathologists in the classification of histopathological melanoma images.
Géraud C, Griewank KG. Géraud C, et al. Eur J Cancer. 2020 May;130:259-261. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2019.09.018. Epub 2019 Oct 23. Eur J Cancer. 2020. PMID: 31668521 No abstract available.