Mobile Phones Will Soon be Able to Detect Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer and quite often its early detection is crucial for the successful subsequent treatment. Unfortunately, not all people have easy access to a dermatologist for one reason or another. Therefore, scientists have been working on the development of an alternative method, which should combine both accuracy, reliability and accessibility. In its issue from 25th January Nature has reported that computer scientist from Stanford University have developed an algorithm that can detect and recognize skin cancer, which was cross checked against 21 dermatologists and performed as good as them. The first test to determine the presence of skin cancer is visual. Doctors examine the skin by looking at the mole or lesion of...