A Deep Learning Approach for Histopathological Diagnosis of Onychomycosis: Not Inferior to Analogue Diagnosis by Histopathologists

• Main Authors: Florence Decroos (Author), Sebastian Springenberg (Author), Tobias Lang (Author), Marc Päpper (Author), Antonia Zapf (Author), Dieter Metze (Author), Volker Steinkraus (Author), Almut Böer-Auer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medical Journals Sweden, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Onychomycosis is common. Diagnosis can be confirmed by various methods; a commonly used method is the histological examination of nail clippings. A deep learning system was developed and its diagnostic accuracy compared with that of human experts. A dataset with annotations for fungal elements was u...