Korean digital health company LifeSemantics has obtained the first approval for an AI-powered solution for skin cancer diagnosis in South Korea.
The company received regulatory clearance from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for canofyMD SCAI four months after its application.
The mobile AI technology was developed through the Doctor Answer 2.0 project, which has gathered 30 hospitals and 19...
Australia has one of the world's highest levels of ultraviolet radiation, a proven carcinogen that causes skin cancer and eye diseases. UV damage is said to accumulate from childhood, and the risk of developing UV-associated diseases increases with age.
Reportedly, one Australian is diagnosed with melanoma every 30 minutes, while 50 people are diagnosed with UV-related cataracts daily. Early...
Health charity Skin Check Champions, the University of South Australia, and The Hospital Research Foundation have teamed up to launch a pop-up clinic that uses AI to diagnose skin cancer.
Their pop-up clinic is led by nurses who take high-quality lesion images from patients, which are then triaged and conditionally diagnosed by AI algorithms to check if they are cancerous. The results are also...
AI tool receives UK regulatory approval to support urgent skin cancer cases
Artificial intelligence (AI) dermatology firm Skin Analytics has received Class IIA status under the UK Medical Device Regulations 2002 for its device, DERM.
DERM uses machine learning to support clinicians in recognising the most common malignant, pre-malignant and benign skin lesions.
James Hamlyn, quality assurance...
Digital health app Miiskin has announced the launch of a new a mole sizing feature.
The skin checking app, which is headquartered in Denmark, allows patients to check if their moles have changed size via augmented reality technology.
Its mole sizing feature requires users to photograph their mole next to a reference object such as a coin to measure and record the lesion’s size. This helps users...
Miami-based DermaSensor and NYC-based Klara have been named the champion startups among a pool of roughly 80 companies participating in Traction, Health 2.0’s startup pitch competition. The former unveiled a portable, handheld, highly accurate skin cancer sensor, while the latter demonstrated a secure and centralized platform for medical communications.
Both companies were praised by judges for...
