Google Introduces Health AI Tool To Identify Skin Conditions

Alphabet Inc’s GOOG latest foray into health care is a web tool that uses artificial intelligence to help people identify skin, hair, or nail conditions.
A trial of the “dermatology assist tool” unveiled at the company’s annual developer conference, Google IO. The company said it hopes to launch a pilot later this year.
People can use their phone’s camera to take three pictures of the problem area, for example, a rash on their arm. They will then have to answer a series of questions about their skin type and other symptoms.
The tool then gives a list of possible conditions from a set of 288 that it’s trained to recognize. It’s not intended to diagnose the problem, the company said in a blog post.
It has taken three years to develop the tool. It has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions and millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, all across different demographics.
The app has been awarded a CE mark for use as a medical tool in Europe.
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