AI better at finding skin cancer than doctors: study


  • TECH
  • Friday, 01 Jun 2018

Doctor examining melanoma, using dermatoscope, copy space

A computer was better than human dermatologists at detecting skin cancer in a study that pitted human against machine in the quest for better, faster diagnostics, researchers said. 

A team from Germany, the United States and France taught an artificial intelligence system to distinguish dangerous skin lesions from benign ones, showing it more than 100,000 images. 

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