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New smart phone apps now let you snap a picture and upload it for a skin cancer check. Sure sounds a lot easier than trekking into the dermatologist, right? But a new review of these apps finds that most of them are not very accurate.
現在智能手機出現了一款新的應用程序，可以讓你抓拍并上傳照片以進行皮膚癌測試。當然這聽起來比跋山涉水去找皮膚科醫生要容易地多，對不？但是對這些應用程序的評審結果顯示大多數皮膚癌測試都并不是很精確。
Dermatologists uploaded 188 images of skin lesions to four different app-based services. The apps, which are unregulated, mostly use algorithms to judge—often in less than a minute—whether the spot is benign or something to get checked out. Three of the four apps failed to catch at least one-in-three known cases of melanoma. The apps also falsely identified plenty of benign growths as possibly cancerous. The findings are in the journal JAMA Dermatology.
皮膚科醫生向4個不同的應用程序上傳了188張皮膚損傷的照片。應用程序是不受監管的，它們大多數是使用算法來判斷皮膚問題是良性的還是需要進行檢查，通常花時不到一分鐘。其中三個應用程序未能診斷出已知黑素瘤病例的幾率至少是三分之一。且應用程序還誤將大量良性增生判斷為可能導致癌變。研究結果刊登在《美國醫學會皮膚科》雜志上。
The fourth app, which did okay, actually used board-certified dermatologists to review images. It was the most expensive at five bucks per assessment and took 24 hours.
第四個應用程序做得較好，是因為聘請了經過認證的皮膚科醫生來查看照片。每檢查一張照片最貴收五美元，并且要花24個小時才能拿到結果。
So next time you're worried about a mole, don't use an app, get an ap—pointment…with a dermatologist.
所以下次你擔心長了黑痣，不要使用應用程序，還是去看皮膚科醫生吧。
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