Skin Cancer Detection Apps Unreliable

Smartphone apps that use artificial intelligence to assess skin cancer risk based on images of suspicious moles aren ’t ready for prime time, a recent systematic review in the BMJ suggests. The 9 studies included in the review “showed variable and unreliable test accuracy” for 6 such apps, 2 of which are approved by European regulators as medical devices.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research