How can general practitioners better detect melanoma?

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Thanks to a new skin cancer screening technology developed by Latvian researchers, clinicians across the EU may soon have access to a portable device that can detect melanoma without a biopsy.

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00:03 When we started the project, we understood

00:08 that there is a large flow of patients that

00:11 wish to check their small moles, which are obviously OK.

00:14 And they go to dermatologists, so the long lines appear.

00:18 And we defined that it would be really nice to get this device

00:20 to the general practitioner.

00:22 And so this normal moles would not go to the dermatologist,

00:26 but the abnormal will really go and get this fast track

00:30 to the dermatologist.

00:31 Definitely, it will be a reduction of costs,

00:33 because you can really do it in a 30-second test.

00:36 And you see that you don't need to actually take

00:39 the dermatologist's time.

00:40 And if you detect it early enough,

00:41 you don't need to treat the patient.

00:43 So that's obviously cost-effective.

00:46 Our team, since we're a technical university,

00:49 so we can bring together the hardware, the programming

00:52 part, the AI part, to bring it from the idea

00:55 to the real product.

00:56 Our colleagues from Hungary, they work with the device.

00:59 And they study different properties of the skin,

01:02 because it's not just for melanoma.

01:03 You can study different parameters.

01:06 You can see what's inside the skin.

01:08 And then they go later on to develop new classification

01:12 and diagnostic algorithms.

01:15 The biggest part is certification,

01:17 because you cannot go for the real market

01:19 without a medical certificate.

01:21 And we hope that in one or two years,

01:24 we will get the certificate and we'll be ready to build

01:27 a commercial product.

01:27 This is the first medical project I started with.

01:30 I'm really excited to bring it for such a long way.

01:33 And now we're doing different other medical projects

01:36 with other clinics as well.

01:37 And of course, it would be really nice

01:39 to bring it to people and to bring

01:41 some real help for people.

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