AI predicts early skin cancer risk with 73% accuracy
A study on the whole adult population of Sweden via analysing registry data on age, sex, diagnosis and socioeconomic status found that artificial intelligence (AI) models could predict rates of melanoma with almost 73% accuracy. A collaborative study between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology applied analytical AI models to a data pool containing over six million Swedish adults. Using registry data of 6,036,186 individuals and informed by demographic factors such as age and sex, the AI was able to identify small groups at high risk for developing melanoma with a high level of accuracy. The data focused on over 38,000 cancer diagnoses When only age and sex were factored into the registry data, the AI models were able to distinguish people who would later develop melanoma with roughly 64% accuracy. A more advanced model informed with comprehensive demographic data managed to increase accuracy to 73%. When informed with diagnoses, medications and sociodemographic data, the models could identify smaller high-risk groups, who faced a 33% risk of developing melanoma within five years. …









