Artificial intelligence is inviting a little more into our daily lives, and Google wants to use it to make it a tool for users with skin problems.
The brand thus evoked a tool which would allow the use of their smartphone to identify certain skin problems and provide information to the user aimed at reassuring them, treating themselves, or inviting them to consult a dermatologist.
It will suffice to take three photos of the area that worries or has pimples or ailment, then the application will invite the user to answer a series of questions about their skin type and the symptoms they are experiencing. The tool will then propose to identify the problem encountered by the user by selecting from among the 288 conditions that he is able to recognize.
The module’s AI has been trained on millions of images of skin problems with patterns that take into account the disease or condition, but also the age of the skin type, sex and medical history of the patients. patients. According to Google, its module would be 84% reliable, and would thus make it possible to direct users to certain answers without really replacing a health professional.
This is why, in addition to the recommendations, Google also systematically recommends consulting the opinion of a dermatologist in case of doubt or concern of the user. The tool thus aims to perform a rapid diagnosis in order to allow the user to act as quickly as possible in the event of a serious problem.