Machine Vision Enables Detection of Melanoma at Most Curable Stage

A well-known legend has it that one of the greatest scientists and inventors of antiquity, Archimedes of Syracuse, stepped into a bath only to eject and propel himself naked throughout the city, yelling “Eureka!”, Greek for “I have found (it),” thus celebrating his discovery of how to measure the volume of irregular objects. Whether this indeed happened or not remains an open question, but a few important lessons can certainly be learned from this story. The first lesson is that good ideas could occur to us while we are taking a bath or a shower. The second lesson is that scientific or technological problems often seem to be difficult before a brilliantly simple solution is found. Does this second lesson hold true today? This is the question we will try to answer using an example of our own journey into discovery.