Produced by Jon Axworthy By August 6, 2019

From expansive artificial intelligence programming to nano-engineering, dermatology is at the cutting edge of the digital health revolution

As any dermatologist, or regular pub quizzer, will be able to tell you, skin is the largest organ of the human body, which brings with it some scaled-up problems for those involved in the specialism. Thankfully, innovative dermatology is enabling practitioners to diagnose and treat skin diseases better and more effectively than ever before, and the latest in skincare technology is helping to solve some of the biggest challenges facing this diverse practice.

With new cases of melanoma skin cancer averaging almost 16,000 between 2014 and 2016 in the UK, one of the most sizeable of these challenges is early detection and diagnosis. However, thanks to it being an acutely visual specialty, dermatologists may soon be able to rely on a particular form of deep-thinking second opinion in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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