New App Uses AI To Classify Skin Conditions With the Snap of a Picture

Piction Health's app can help doctors classify a range of skin conditions. Piction Health, founded by Susan Conover SM '15, uses machine learning to help physicians identify and manage skin disease. When Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out at the age of 22, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the mole was finally removed and biopsied, doctors determined it was cancerous. At the time, no one could be sure the cancer hadn't spread to other parts of her body -- the critical difference between stage 2 and stage 3 or 4 melanoma.