Hypothetical Abductive Reasoning in Dermatology and Dermatopathology
Carlo Francesco Tomasini, Lorenzo Magnani · 2025
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Carlo Francesco Tomasini and Lorenzo Magnani write about how skin doctors reason toward a diagnosis, in this 2025 paper. Their topic is abduction, the step where a doctor forms a likely explanation from what is seen, before tests confirm it. In skin clinics and labs, this step drives the list of possible diseases and the match between bedside and microscope findings.
The authors sort abduction into two kinds: creative, which coins new ideas, and selective, which picks among known ones. They set out a simple loop: pick a hypothesis, work out what else should hold, test it, then update. An older pattern method for skin lesions fits the loop well. Short cases show how images and tools act as aids to thought. The paper ends by mapping AI aids onto the selective kind and urging fairness and openness in their use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Carlo Francesco Tomasini, Lorenzo Magnani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |