A new technology, based on artificial intelligence and developed by the company H4D, now offers skin cancer screening. An initiative proposed in towns in the department far from the healthcare offering, such as Ablis.
What if artificial intelligence (AI) worked in the service of science and even better, public health? This is the proposal launched by the company H4D, which aims to deploy in all its telemedicine cabins located in Yvelines, an AI-based technology to detect skin cancer, in partnership with the France association cancer and skin association and the Department of Yvelines.
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A major advance, presented for the first time at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), on May 27. This device makes it possible, thanks to artificial intelligence and telemedicine, to detect skin melanoma early. After the UVSQ, it is now almost everywhere in Yvelines, thanks to the health bus which travels to the municipalities furthest from the healthcare offer, that this cutting-edge technology is offered to patients, by appointment , as in Ablis, Tuesday June 11.
Over the past thirty years, there have been twice as many skin cancers.
And the principle is as simple as pie. During the teleconsultation with a general practitioner, the patient himself uses the dermatoscope, a small device equipped with a lamp. “It will make it possible to take pictures of possible suspicious lesions, before sending them to artificial intelligence software which analyzes these photos to make a diagnosis on the type of emergency that these lesions may represent”, develops Marie Cooke , marketing manager within the company H4D.
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Sensitization
“Depending on this, the doctor, via teleconsultation, advises the patient to make an appointment with their dermatologist more or less urgently.”
An operation launched at a strategic time: the arrival of sunny days, in May. “We are part of the “Purple May” initiative, just before going on vacation and being exposed to the sun, it is important to organize an operation like this to raise people’s awareness,” says Stéphanie Lelièvre, volunteer within the France asso cancer and skin association.
“The simple act of tanning is already synonymous with injury, even with cream: there is no such thing as a healthy tan, it is already an anomaly and not everyone necessarily knows it.”
Stéphanie Lelièvre (empty)
17,000 new cases of melanoma are detected each year, causing no less than 2,000 deaths. “For thirty years, there have been twice as many skin cancers,” says the volunteer. “Hence the importance of prevention and detection.”
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An awareness campaign that is not always easy to carry out, particularly in more rural areas which do not benefit from privileged access to healthcare provision. This is why the health bus of the Department of Yvelines is an integral part of the operation, since it hosts the technology of the HD4 company, in order to make it accessible to the populations of the territory.
“Addressing the medical desert”
“Eleven towns in Yvelines have been marked by the Department, the Regional Health Agency and the Primary Health Insurance Fund, because they are considered the furthest from care,” explains Isabelle Rivierre, nurse coordinator for the bus. health of Yvelines.
“The objective is to “move towards” by promoting health and thus, overcoming the medical desert.”
Isabelle Rivierre (empty)
If the bus primarily offers general medicine teleconsultations, it is not uncommon for screening operations to also be accessible, as this time, with melanoma, but also with “diabetes, breast, colon or of the uterus…”. “When we know how difficult it is to consult, the most important thing, thanks to this bus, is that people do not remain isolated.”
Laura Alliche
