Hyderabad sources have reported that two youngsters from Hyderabad developed software that can detect skin cancer at early stages with the collaboration of a dermatologist from Apollo Hospital. Accordingly Siddharth Mandala and Praneet Shah have developed the software that has the potential to enable healthcare providers to detect malignant melanoma among patients.
Sources have stated that the patients have to do is to take their skin pictures through a phone camera which is connected to a computer. The software detects the images from the phone, analysis it and starts displaying the results. Meanwhile the 18 year old youngsters worked on the software under the guidance of Dr AS Kumar, a dermatologist with Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad. Shah mainly worked on the development of core programming while Mandala worked on the testing of the program and understanding the cancer symptoms and its detection at early stage.
Further the youngsters said they have received encouraging results after
testing the software in real world conditions. Mandala said “So far, the
software was tested with hundreds of medical record pictures and the results
were positive".
