Google's AI Detects 26 Skin Diseases with Accuracy Comparable to Dermatologists - Docwire News

A Google research team has recently created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can detect 26 different skin diseases with the same accuracy as a licensed dermatologist. This deep learning technology evaluates images and metadata, such as self-reported symptoms and demographic information, to generate a ranked list of possible diagnoses just as a trained professional would. The Google team's findings were covered in a paper titled "A deep learning system for differential diagnosis of skin diseases" and in a blog post penned by, Yuan Liu, PhD, Software Engineer and Peggy Bui, MD, Technical Program Manager, Google Health. With nearly 2 billion patients having some form of skin condition globally and many areas lacking dermatologists, patients must often take such concerns up with their primary care physicians. Research has shown that while dermatologists diagnose these skin conditions with accuracies between 77-96%, the general practitioner does so with only 24-70% accuracy.