Definition
Computer vision and clinical decision support for skin lesions—typically specialist CNNs or regulated ensembles on dermoscopy/clinical photos, distinct from general-purpose medical-ai chat or VLM prompts.
Key Points (Oct 2026)
- Lynch Lab benchmark: fine-tuned Inception v3 beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on 200 biopsy-proven cases; LLMs showed unsafe discharge rates on some melanomas at default thresholds (2026-10-25-llm-skin-cancer-cnn-outperforms-frontier)
n=200, single LLM run per case—not clinical deployment guidance.