If detected early, cancer is curable. Genital skin cancer is detected late as it affects the comfort level and there are privacy issues. Biopsy is painful. Non-invasive screening of skin lesions is the best option.

Mumbai-based teenagers Aasimm Khan and Siddarth Jain have developed an ML model available as a mobile app. The image of the lesion is fed into Deep Convolutional Neural Network. It is tested with 5000 images. Lesion is classified as malignant, benign or pre-malignant.

These teenagers represented Own My Own Technology (OMOTEC) Innovation Centre, Mumbai. The team won the Imagine Cup from Microsoft under the category of AI for Humanitarian Action.