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The evolution of behavior of dermatology patients has seen significantly accelerated change over the past decade, driven by surging availability and adoption of digital tools and platforms. Through our longitudinal analysis of this behavior within Tunisia over a 35-year time frame, we identify behavioral patterns across economic and cultural dimensions and how digital tools have impacted those patterns in preceding years. Throughout this work, we highlight the witnessed effects of available digital tools as experienced by patients, and conclude by presenting a vision for how future tools can help address the issues identified across economic and cultural manifestations. Our analysis is further framed around three types of digital tools: “Dr. Google”, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and across three stages of clinical care: pre-visit, in-visit, and post-visit.
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Akrout, M., Amdouni, H., Feriani, A., Kourda, M., Abid, L. (2022). A 35-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Dermatology Patient Behavior Across Economic and Cultural Manifestations in Tunisia, and the Impact of Digital Tools. In: Baxter, J.S.H., et al. Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging, Multimodal Learning and Fusion Across Scales for Clinical Decision Support, and Topological Data Analysis for Biomedical Imaging. EPIMI ML-CDS TDA4BiomedicalImaging 2022 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23223-7_4
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