Reply to the letter to the editor: ‘Deep learning outperformed 11 pathologists in the classification of histopathological melanoma images’
Achim Hekler, Jochen Sven Utikal, Wiebke Solaß, Max Schmitt, Joachim Klode, Dirk Schadendorf, Wiebke Sondermann, Cindy Franklin, Felix Bestvater, Dieter Krahl, Christof V. Kalle, Stefan Fröhling, Titus Josef Brinker · European Journal of Cancer · 2020
At the end of the recruitment period, 14 addresses had acknowledged the invitation by e-mail, and these physicians were counted as invited to the survey. As described in the manuscript, participants with and without board certification were eligible because pathologists with and without board certification assess histologic slides in clinical routine.