AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
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Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#2Why go to the hospital at all? Just take the photo at home.
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#3Why go to the hospital at all? Just take the photo at home.
Article says medical photographers take the pictures. I'd guess a future iteration will have the app direct the patient to take the pictures.
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#4Why go to the hospital at all? Just take the photo at home.
I assume if you get a positive response you will want to speak with doctor about it
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#5This would be such a beautiful use of AI
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#6Why go to the hospital at all? Just take the photo at home.
As someone with a phenotype more subject to skin cancer, I have been using an app called SkinVision for years.
From my anecdotal experience it tends to flag the same moles as dermatologists do, and they have actual dermatologists review images where the model has low confidence, so overall pretty happy with it.
Note that I am not affiliated with them in any way.
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#7 99% accuracy in diagnosing benign case
I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so this is mostly a criticism of the article. That said, this is a horrible use of AI.
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#899% accuracy in diagnosing benign case This is meaningless. The only thing that matters in this kind of application is false negative rate at some acceptable false positive rate. I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so this is mostly a criticism of the article. That said, this is a horrible use of AI.
I went searching for more. The tool is called DERM by Skin Analytics. They have more info on stats:
https://skin-analytics.com/ai-pathways/derm-performance/
A few peer reviewed pubs down the bottom of the page
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#9Why go to the hospital at all? Just take the photo at home.
I assume if you get a positive response you will want to speak with doctor about it
If the thermometer says 39 C/102 F I will want to speak with a doctor about it but that doesn't mean I want to go to the hospital every time I want my temperature checked.
I suspect it has a lot more to do with these lines:
> medical photographers taking photos of suspicious moles and lesions
I.e. it might not be ready enough or validated for an average person snapping their own photo and:
> The images are then transferred to a desktop computer for greater analysis before the tool determines the result
There is more to it than the phone app and it may not be packaged in a way that is currently worthwhile to distribute to home users.
Both of these (and other things) may change with time of course.
Re: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
#10This would be such a beautiful use of AI
I last heard it's a pretty darn helpful tool, from a radiologist acquaintence/undergrad friend (who works from home in USA).