by Bruce Brown | November 11, 2021 | Health
Machine learning artificial intelligence is a good fit for dermatology. Dermatologists make judgments about unusual marks or moles on a patient’s skin, but even when they are sure that an abnormality isn’t a problem, the physician often takes a photo for...
by Bruce Brown | April 1, 2021 | Medical
We’ve written about Denmark-based Miiskin’s eponymous mole-tracking feature previously. Miiskin is an iOS app that uses a smartphone camera to monitoring skin health. The original version of the software had four major functions: locating marks and moles...
by Bruce Brown | November 13, 2020 | Medical
Teledermatology is a showcase of telemedicine specialty. Forwarded high-resolution images of moles or other suspect areas of the skin enable dermatologists to make initial judgments without requiring in-person patient appointments. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm...
by Bruce Brown | August 20, 2020 | Medical
Physicians will diagnose more than 100,000 new melanomas among people in the U.S. this year, and about nearly 7,000 people will die from malignant skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. We’ve written several times about the role artificial...
by Bruce Brown | August 27, 2019 | Enabling Tech
As an adult on the far side of middle age who lives in the South, I have an annual dermatology checkup. Most years my doctor finds a questionable spot or two on my skin. I suspect he can tell whether an area is a likely concern on visual inspection, but he is willing...
