AI-Assisted Skin Cancer Detection
KTP Project with Check4Cancer, Cambridge, UK (2022-2024)
- Funding Amount: £204,671.980
- Funder: Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
- Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
- Academic Team: Dr Haider Raza (PI), Dr Alba Garcia Seco De Herrera, Professor John Q Gan.
- KTP Associate: Dr Shafiqul Islam
- Industry Lead: Professor Gordan Wishart
- Year: 2022 - 2024
Secured £204,671.98 in research funding as the principal investigator (PI) from Innovate UK, in collaboration with Check4Cancer (UK), to develop a state-of-the-art AI engine for detecting melanoma-based skin cancer lesions. As part of this project, we have hired a post-doctoral researcher who developed explainable AI and other computer vision-based methods to launch a robust AI model within a mobile app, with a particular emphasis on minimizing false negatives. We have access to the Check4Cancer dataset, which consists of dermoscopic and digital images, along with metadata collected over the past two decades.