Is that a new freckle… or something more?
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.
Ever spot a weird mole and tumble down a rabbit hole of self-diagnosis? What if your phone could offer a real second opinion, minus the drama?
Meet Siyuan Yan and team at Monash University. They’ve developed PanDerm, an AI skin know-it-all. They trained it on over two million images to recognize over a hundred different skin conditions.
How’s it stack up? In tests, PanDerm outperformed top dermatologists by over ten percent at detecting early-stage melanoma! It improved overall skin cancer diagnosis by eleven percent!
So next time you have a skin scare, put down Dr. Google. The Derm-inator is in. Hasta la vista, Freckles.
Reference: Yan, S., Yu, Z., Primiero, C., Vico-Alonso, C., Wang, Z., Yang, L., … & Ge, Z. (2025). A multimodal vision foundation model for clinical dermatology. Nature Medicine, 1-12.