Utility of non-rule-based visual matching as a strategy to allow novices to achieve skin lesion diagnosis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-283

  Aldridge, R Benjamin ^a   Glodzik, Dominik ^a   Ballerini, Lucia ^a   Fisher, Robert B ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dermatology diagnosis; Electronic clinical decision support software; Melanoma; Non analytical reasoning; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCOTLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955722126     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1049     Document Type: Article

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