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Ask HN: Why don't we have a mobile app to screen for skin cancer?

2•sarpdag•1h ago
We already have the data, knowledge, and technology to build this. Why can’t I just use my phone camera to check if a spot on my skin looks concerning? It wouldn’t need to give a full diagnosis—just suggest whether I should see a doctor about a specific area.

If such apps exist, why aren’t they widely available?

Comments

genezeta•43m ago
After maybe half a minute searching...

https://skinive.org/

https://www.skinvision.com/

https://dermie.ai/

eimrine•42m ago
Medical industry is the least developed among industries/sciences. There is too much of regulation/censourship, here is the quick list of problems that will inevitably happen:

- Someone exposes some CSAM picture to the app/smartphone and somehow the Government gets the fact of owning the photo. For example, Apple's neural network will have a big fun scanning images of somebody's skin.

- Someone sues the app because of false positive or false negative or just stupidity.

- Snoop-phone is a security nightmare because traditionally any app tries to steal and sell every piece of data possible, having anything medical on the snoop-phone means that any capitalist knows something which is supposed to be private.

- Some problems might happen because of race questions, I mean some issues related to skin color.

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