Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduate Dr Qurrat Ul Ain has developed an artificial intelligence programme that could help diagnose skin cancer, using just a photograph. During her PhD, Dr Qurrat Ul Ain developed a computer-aided diagnostic system that can identify certain characteristics of the disease from a photograph of a skin lesion. "Skin cancer has certain unique visual features that help to differentiate it from normal skin," Dr Qurrat Ul Ain says. "These include colour, texture, and the shape of lesions. By showing our artificial intelligence programme images of cancerous skin, we were able to teach it to identify cancer when shown other photographs."