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Ashfaq A. Marghoob is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Oncology, Epidemiology, and Dermatology. Their body of work includes 254 publications across these disciplines, focusing particularly on cutaneous melanoma detection and management, nonmelanoma skin cancer studies, and cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research.

The scientist's research interests span a variety of specialized topics, including:

  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies
  • Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research
  • Cancer and Skin Lesions
  • Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • AI in cancer detection

Marghoob has contributed to several journals with notable frequency. The key publication venues where they have extensively published include:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • Dermatology Practical & Conceptual
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
  • JAMA Dermatology
  • JAAD Case Reports

Among recent research contributions, the following papers provide insight into their areas of focus:

  • Prognostic Gene Expression Profiling in Cutaneous Melanoma, 2020, JAMA Dermatology
  • Prospective validation of dermoscopy-based open-source artificial intelligence for melanoma diagnosis (PROVE-AI study), 2023, npj Digital Medicine
  • An Epidemiologic Analysis of Melanoma Overdiagnosis in the United States, 1975-2017, 2021, Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Reflectance confocal microscopy terminology glossary for melanocytic skin lesions: A systematic review, 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • In vivo tumor immune microenvironment phenotypes correlate with inflammation and vasculature to predict immunotherapy response, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaboration plays a significant role in Marghoob's research, working frequently with various co-authors. The most common collaborators include:

  • Cristián Navarrete-Dechent
  • Stephen W. Dusza
  • Michael A. Marchetti
  • Allan C. Halpern
  • Konstantinos Liopyris

Best Publications

  • Man against machine: diagnostic performance of a deep learning convolutional neural network for dermoscopic melanoma recognition in comparison to 58 dermatologists.

    H.A. Haenssle;C. Fink;R. Schneiderbauer;F. Toberer

  • Ultraviolet A and melanoma: a review.

    Steven Q. Wang;Richard Setlow;Marianne Berwick;David Polsky

  • Comparison of the accuracy of human readers versus machine-learning algorithms for pigmented skin lesion classification: an open, web-based, international, diagnostic study.

    Philipp Tschandl;Noel Codella;Bengü Nisa Akay;Giuseppe Argenziano

  • Large congenital melanocytic nevi and the risk for development of malignant melanoma and neurocutaneous melanocytosis.

    Flavia V. Bittencourt;Ashfaq A. Marghoob;Alfred W. Kopf;Karen L. Koenig

  • Results of the 2016 International Skin Imaging Collaboration International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging challenge: Comparison of the accuracy of computer algorithms to dermatologists for the diagnosis of melanoma from dermoscopic images

    Michael A. Marchetti;Noel C.F. Codella;Stephen W. Dusza;David A. Gutman

  • Dermoscopic evaluation of amelanotic and hypomelanotic melanoma

    Menzies Sw;Kreusch J;Byth K;Pizzichetta Ma

  • Dermoscopy in general dermatology.

    Iris Zalaudek;Giuseppe Argenziano;Alessandro Di Stefani;Gerardo Ferrara

  • Large Congenital Melanocytic Nevi and the Risk for the Development of Malignant Melanoma: A Prospective Study

    Ashfaq A. Marghoob;Sandra P. Schoenbach;Alfred W. Kopf;Seth J. Orlow

  • The CASH (color, architecture, symmetry, and homogeneity) algorithm for dermoscopy

    J. Scott Henning;Stephen W. Dusza;Steven Q. Wang;Ashfaq A. Marghoob

  • Diagnosis and management of nail pigmentations

    Ralph Peter Braun;Robert Baran;Frederique Anne Le Gal;Stephane Dalle

  • Differences Between Polarized Light Dermoscopy and Immersion Contact Dermoscopy for the Evaluation of Skin Lesions

    Cristiane Benvenuto-Andrade;Stephen W. Dusza;Anna Liza C. Agero;Alon Scope

  • Standardization of terminology in dermoscopy/dermatoscopy: Results of the third consensus conference of the International Society of Dermoscopy.

    Harald Kittler;Ashfaq A. Marghoob;Giuseppe Argenziano;Cristina Carrera

  • New recommendations for the categorization of cutaneous features of congenital melanocytic nevi.

    Sven Krengel;Alon Scope;Alon Scope;Stephen W. Dusza;Reinhard Vonthein

  • Neurocutaneous melanosis : clinical features of large congenital melanocytic nevi in patients with manifest central nervous system melanosis

    Maria DeDavid;Seth J Orlow;Nathalie Provost;Ashfaq A Marghoob

  • Expert-Level Diagnosis of Nonpigmented Skin Cancer by Combined Convolutional Neural Networks.

    Philipp Tschandl;Philipp Tschandl;Cliff Rosendahl;Cliff Rosendahl;Bengu Nisa Akay;Giuseppe Argenziano

  • Instruments and new technologies for the in vivo diagnosis of melanoma

    Ashfaq A Marghoob;Lucinda D Swindle;Claudia Z.M Moricz;Fitzgeraldo A Sanchez Negron

  • A study of large congenital melanocytic nevi and associated malignant melanomas: Review of cases in the New York University registry and the world literature

    Maria DeDavid;Seth J. Orlow;Nathalie Provost;Ashfaq A. Marghoob

  • Association of melanoma and neurocutaneous melanocytosis with large congenital melanocytic naevi--results from the NYU-LCMN registry.

    E K Hale;J Stein;L Ben-Porat;K S Panageas

  • Reflectance Confocal Microscopy Criteria for Squamous Cell Carcinomas and Actinic Keratoses

    Ayelet Rishpon;Nancy Kim;Alon Scope;Leeor Porges

  • Reflectance confocal microscopy of skin in vivo: From bench to bedside

    Milind Rajadhyaksha;Ashfaq Marghoob;Anthony Rossi;Allan C. Halpern

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan C. Halpern
Allan C. Halpern Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Iris Zalaudek
Iris Zalaudek University of Trieste
Susana Puig
Susana Puig University of Barcelona
Josep Malvehy
Josep Malvehy University of Barcelona
Klaus J. Busam
Klaus J. Busam Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Giuseppe Argenziano
Giuseppe Argenziano University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Alfred W. Kopf
Alfred W. Kopf New York University
H. Peter Soyer
H. Peter Soyer University of Queensland
Giovanni Pellacani
Giovanni Pellacani Sapienza University of Rome
Martin A. Weinstock
Martin A. Weinstock Brown University

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