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. 2013 Nov 4;8(11):e76212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076212

Table 1. Demographic data for each histological diagnosis and the performance of dermatologists and CADx.

No. of Correct/Incorrect Diagnoses2
Pathology N1 % Sex (F/M) Mean Age (Year) Dermatologist CADx
Benign 595 77.37 358/237 40.88 511/84 521/74
Blue nevus 22 2.86 16/6 35.64 19/3 20/2
Compound nevus 53 6.89 35/18 28.68 50/3 47/6
Congenital nevus 9 1.17 3/6 22.89 9/0 6/3
Dermatofibroma* 49 6.37 30/19 36.84 47/2 48/1
Dysplastic nevus 2 0.26 1/1 39.5 1/1 1/1
Epidermal nevus* 3 0.39 2/1 17 3/0 2/1
Hemangioma* 38 4.94 22/16 47.21 35/3 23/15
Intradermal nevus 240 31.21 161/79 36.98 209/31 225/15
Junctional nevus 46 5.98 29/17 35.85 39/7 42/4
Lentigo simplex 1 0.13 0/1 72 0/1 1/0
Nevus lipomatosus superficialis* 1 0.13 0/1 57 1/0 0/1
Nevus sebaceous* 2 0.26 2/0 30.5 2/0 2/0
Nevus spilus 2 0.26 2/0 23.5 2/0 2/0
Seborrheic keratosis* 127 16.51 55/72 57.69 94/33 102/25
Malignant 174 22.63 81/93 68.86 145/29 149/25
BCC* 110 14.3 57/53 68.14 97/13 99/11
Cutaneous melanoma 8 1.04 5/3 63.25 6/2 6/2
Kaposi's sarcoma* 14 1.82 2/12 70.5 11/3 10/4
Keratoacanthoma* 22 2.86 7/15 64.82 14/8 18/4
SCC* 20 2.6 10/10 78.35 17/3 16/4
All lesions 769 100 439/330 47.21 656/113 670/99
1

N: number of images.

2

Indeterminate diagnoses by dermatologists were considered as incorrect. The diagnoses by CADx were made using the final 16-feature model with a cutoff value 0.3972.

*

Non-melanocytic skin lesions.