The use of new technologies in medicine continues to advance. The University of Houston, in the United States, has just announced the latest achievement of one of its professors, George Zouridakis: DermoScreen, an application capable of preventing skin cancer. By taking a picture of a lesion or a suspicious mole with the phone, the software analyzes the risk of it being cancer, with an 85% success rate.
“We are in the early stages of planning and approving this project, but such an application, if validated, has the potential for widespread use to improve patient care” says Ana Ciurea, an assistant at the Professor George Zouridakis, cited by the site Digital health. The only problem for the moment is that the application must be accompanied by a dermoscope of around $ 500, or nearly 365 euros, for greater accuracy of the phone’s camera.
The goal of the researchers is to work on a product that could come to the aid of people living in remote areas where access to specialists is sometimes complicated, reports the site. Or, serve as a complement to itinerant doctors who are in less developed countries.
