App checks for skin cancer

Dermoscreen

This is too damn impressive – an app (DermoScreen) that can scan your skin and detect skin cancer with an 85% accuracy (same as dermatologists). Of course it won’t be something that regular people own, but once commercialized it could find it’s way to any doctors office.

And if there any smartphone creators out there, it might be a good idea to create a phone that has the special lens incorporated directly into the phone. Could be a way to be the preferred phone for millions of doctors around the world.

Read more about the app here

(H/T PSFK)

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