Computer learns to detect skin cancer more accurately than doctors

Artificial intelligence machine found 95% of melanomas in study compared to 86.6% for dermatologists

A computer was better than human dermatologists at detecting skin cancer in a study that pitted people against machines in the quest for better, faster diagnostics, researchers said on Tuesday.

A team from Germany, the United States and France taught an artificial intelligence system to distinguish dangerous skin lesions from benign ones, showing it more than 100,000 images.