'Automated dermatologist' detects skin cancer with expert accuracy

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'Automated dermatologist' detects skin cancer with expert accuracy

(CNN)Even though the phrase "image recognition technologies" conjures visions of high-tech surveillance, these tools may soon be used in medicine more than in spycraft.

A team of Stanford researchers trained a computer to identify images of skin cancer moles and lesions as accurately as a dermatologist, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.
In the future, this new research suggests, a simple cell phone app may help patients diagnose a skin cancer -- the most common of all cancers in the United States -- for themselves.

In the future one is not going to want to go to the doctor for a check-up as it my cost you your house...So this could be the thing.