This historic milestone makes DERM the world?s first legally authorised AI to independently make clinical decisions on skin cancer without oversight marking a transformative era for global healthcare.
‘Watershed moment’ with cancer test that doesn’t need a doctor to decide A British AI has been authorised to detect cancer without human oversight in a ‘world first’, its makers said.
Skin cancer cases are rising globally, in the last decade in the NHS there has been a 170% increase in the number of people referred urgently for assessment of suspicious skin lesions.
They raised particular concerns about how accurate AI technologies are at detecting cancer and non-cancer skin lesions in people with darker skin.
NICE judged that ‘more data is needed to be certain that these technologies do not incorrectly detect or miss skin cancer in people with black or brown skin’.
