Missouri S&T researchers use artificial intelligence for skin cancer detection

Computer scientists in Rolla are working with dermatologists on a project that uses artificial intelligence to help detect skin cancer.

The scientists at Missouri University of Science and Technology received a $440,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project. The money will fund updates to an International Skin Imaging Collaboration’s database, an enormous image collection of benign and cancerous moles.

Computers comb through the database and use algorithms that simulate human learning to make deductions about whether a mole could be malignant.