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Research Article

AICOM-MP: an AI-based monkeypox detector for resource-constrained environments

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Article: 2306962 | Received 11 Dec 2023, Accepted 13 Jan 2024, Published online: 06 Feb 2024
 

Abstract

Under the Autonomous Mobile Clinics (AMCs) initiative, the AI Clinics on Mobile (AICOM) project is developing, open sourcing, and standardising health AI technologies on low-end mobile devices to enable health-care access in least-developed countries (LDCs). As the first step, we introduce AICOM-MP, an AI-based monkeypox detector specially aiming for handling images taken from resource-constrained devices. We have developed AICOM-MP with the following principles: minimisation of gender, racial, and age bias; ability to conduct binary classification without over-relying on computing power; capacity to produce accurate results irrespective of images' background, resolution, and quality. AICOM-MP has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. We have hosted AICOM-MP as a web service to allow universal access to monkeypox screening technology, and open-sourced both the source code and the dataset of AICOM-MP to allow health AI professionals to integrate AICOM-MP into their services.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data and source code that support the findings of this study are available at https://github.com/Tim-Yang-YTY/AICOM.