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

Question

We already have the data, knowledge, and technology to build this. Why can&rsquo;t I just use my phone camera to check if a spot on my skin looks concerning? It wouldn&rsquo;t need to give a full diagnosis&mdash;just suggest whether I should see a doctor about a specific area.If such apps exist, why aren&rsquo;t they widely available?

genezeta · Accepted Answer

After maybe half a minute searching...https://skinive.org/https://www.skinvision.com/https://dermie.ai/

eimrine · Answer

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.

BoredPositron · Answer

There are hundreds of them... some ai slops are free for some you pay 10 bucks to have a doctor look at it.