Physical examination articles within Nature Communications

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  15 January 2024 | Open Access

  Dermatologist-like explainable AI enhances trust and confidence in diagnosing melanoma

  Artificial intelligence has become popular as a cancer classification tool, but there is distrust of such systems due to their lack of transparency. Here, the authors develop an explainable AI system which produces text- and region-based explanations alongside its classifications which was assessed using clinicians’ diagnostic accuracy, diagnostic confidence, and their trust in the system.

  • Tirtha Chanda
  • , Katja Hauser
  •  & Titus J. Brinker

• Article
  04 January 2024 | Open Access

  AI co-pilot bronchoscope robot

  The unequal distribution of medical resources means that bronchoscopic services are often unavailable in underdeveloped areas. Here, the authors present an AI co-pilot bronchoscope robot that features a user-friendly plug-and-play catheter and an AI-human shared control algorithm, to enable novice doctors to conduct lung examinations safely.

  • Jingyu Zhang
  • , Lilu Liu
  •  & Haojian Lu

• Article
  09 March 2021 | Open Access

  All-printed stretchable corneal sensor on soft contact lenses for noninvasive and painless ocular electrodiagnosis

  Though smart contact lenses are an attractive technology for recording electroretinogram signals, existing approaches suffer from poor mechanical reliability, chemical stability and wettability. Here, the authors report an all-printed stretchable corneal sensor built on commercial soft contact lenses.

  • Kyunghun Kim
  • , Ho Joong Kim
  •  & Chi Hwan Lee