Ticking Lyme Bomb Detector
Award: Shortlist
Shortlist / Future Impact / Initiative / 2023
Detecting a Lyme rash on Black skin is difficult, but technology can make it easier. The Lyme Bomb Detector, fuelled by artificial intelligence, uses common smartphone camera technology to analyse an image using a neural network model, which has been trained with hundreds of thousands of photos with different variations of visible Lyme symptoms. The tool also uses photo manipulation presets to provide a high contrast result, effectively revealing the previously hidden rash, finally creating way for people of colour to more easily and quickly identify the presence of a tick bite rash.
