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by rplnt 425 days ago
This doesn't seem like nothing new? I remember a talk about this being done some 12+ years ago. Just without the AI label to generate hype.
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There has been talk about this pretty much since CNNs got good at object recognition ~2012.

But healthcare is a rather conservative industry (for good reason) so it has taken a while to build confidence in the technology and get regulatory approval.

Yeah - I don't recall which company (maybe johnson & johnson) it was but my aunt worked for one that produced a portable machine that used a camera to check moles and used some sort of algorithm to give a predicted score. This was 20ish years ago. I remember she brought it to my grandparents and we had fun checking everyones moles for the day.