Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Machine-learning software developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could soon enable earlier detection of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
The new artificial intelligence tool, a project that involved collaboration with the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, adds objective data to the visual assessments of skin lesions now done by dermatologists.
“This could be a very powerful tool for skin cancer clinical decision support,” said Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor who is the Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems and a director of the Vision and Image Processing Lab. "The more interpretable information there is, the better the decisions are."
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