The smartphones in the service of health

The company SkinVision B. V. offers a smartphone app of the same name, which is able to detect early stages of skin cancer. At the heart of its work, the algorithms of fractal geometry.

Matched images of the skin that you download from the gallery of gadget and data from a database, which contains information about the pattern of tissue growth.

According to the developers, the accuracy of skin cancer comes to 83%.

The efficiency of the algorithms underlying the operation of the application was tested at the dermatology clinic in Munich in 2013.

SkinVision is available for smartphones with Android operating system and iOS.