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I've read the article :), the author is the same physician who wrote "emperor of all maladies", a book about cancer. Basically what it comes down to is that do

I've read the article :), the author is the same physician who wrote "emperor of all maladies", a book about cancer. Basically what it comes down to is that doctors get really good at bayesian inference at some point in their career, definitely not while we are students. I am however confident that we can build models that learn in a similar manner. I'm actually trying to build a model for a class project that uses bayesian inference in a CNN as per Gal et al (https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02158 https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02158) to try and detect diabetic retinopathy. Their paper actually tries to detect different skin cancers.

smartbit 9y ago
Miiskin tries to develop such a recognition algorithm [0]. To get the training sets they offer a app which allows you to take pictures, periodically reminds you and keep track of moles. The pictures are uploaded outside EU and linked with PII like email, sex & year of birth. Including possible pictures of your face, breasts and genitals [1]. I don't want to pay with my personal data. Is such an app recommended and are there open source alternatives? [0] with the purpose of enabling our Image Pattern Processing system in 3.12 http://miiskin.com/legals/ http://miiskin.com/legals/ [1] https://youtu.be/pTzk7rfcc-I https://youtu.be/pTzk7rfcc-I
- epmaybe 9y ago
  I'm not sure that the app is "recommended" per say, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious if you're out in the sun a lot or predisposed. The only other app I know is SkinIO, developed by some northwestern students if I recall correctly. I'm not certain how it all works, but maybe look into that?
hackerfromthefu 9y ago
Sounds like a really good match for ML - as long as all the input the physician is detecting is visuals. There could be e.g. a smell or temperature component as well, but it's likely visual is enough to get very high accuracy eventually.

smartbit 9y ago

Miiskin tries to develop such a recognition algorithm [0]. To get the training sets they offer a app which allows you to take pictures, periodically reminds you and keep track of moles. The pictures are uploaded outside EU and linked with PII like email, sex & year of birth. Including possible pictures of your face, breasts and genitals [1]. I don't want to pay with my personal data. Is such an app recommended and are there open source alternatives? [0] with the purpose of enabling our Image Pattern Processing system in 3.12 http://miiskin.com/legals/ http://miiskin.com/legals/ [1] https://youtu.be/pTzk7rfcc-I https://youtu.be/pTzk7rfcc-I

epmaybe 9y ago
I'm not sure that the app is "recommended" per say, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious if you're out in the sun a lot or predisposed. The only other app I know is SkinIO, developed by some northwestern students if I recall correctly. I'm not certain how it all works, but maybe look into that?

hackerfromthefu 9y ago

Sounds like a really good match for ML - as long as all the input the physician is detecting is visuals. There could be e.g. a smell or temperature component as well, but it's likely visual is enough to get very high accuracy eventually.