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Episode: AI skin cancer detection app claims 99.8 percent accuracy rate in ruling out cancer
Description: British tech company, Skin Analytics has received regulatory approval for DERMβits autonomous AI skin cancer detection system that uses a smartphone.
Dermatologists are in short supply, with an average of only 30 dermatologists per one million population in Europe.
Skin cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer if it's caught early but in the UK alone, NHS England says urgent skin cancer referrals have skyrocketed 170 percent in the last decade, and 11 percent of urgent cases wait over a month just to be seen.
The simple app operates on most smartphones and with a lens attachment called a de...