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by hhs 2611 days ago
Very useful, thanks for this level of critique.

I wish they added this context in the limitations section. The paper only says:

"There are some limitations to this system. It remains an open question whether the design of the questionnaire had any influence on the performance of the dermatologists compared with clinical settings. Furthermore, clinical encounters with actual patients provide more information than that can be provided by images alone. Hänßle et al. showed that additional clinical data improve the sensitivity and specificity of dermatologists slightly [5]. Machine learning techniques can also include this information in their decisions. However, even with this slight improvement, the CNN would still outperform the dermatologists."

Your points hit on validity issues. Where would it fit on the errors of omission/commission scale?