The potentially life-saving technology could soon be incorporated in a smart phone, the researchers said, an advance reminiscent of the diagnostic device wielded by Dr McCoy in the 1960s Star Trek sci-fi series.
Adapting a Google algorithm designed to distinguish between categories of objects based on images – telling a cat from a dog, for example – the Stanford team compiled a database of nearly 130,000 photos of skin disease.
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