MELCAYA “Novel health care strategies for melanoma in children, adolescents and young adults”
In childhood, adolescence and young adults (CAYA), melanoma is under-studied and non-existing tailored clinical guidelines and standardized approaches lead to a very low diagnostic accuracy. The MELCAYA project aims to understand risk factors and determinants of melanoma to improve the prevention, diagnosis and prognosis of melanomas in CAYAs through a strong international consortium with experts from 10 countries in different disciplines (e.g. oncology, paediatrics, ethics, policy making), and sectors (e.g. academic centers, SMEs, hospitals, patient associations).
The Brinker group will adapt existing AI classifiers for melanoma diagnosis on macroscopic images and whole-slide images (WSIs) to the CAYA-cohort, which is currently under-represented in the data used to build state-of-the-art classifiers.