Innovative! UMY Students Develop AI Technology To Detect Skin Cancer

YOGYAKARTA - A breakthrough was made by the Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) student team by developing a "Scanoma" which is an early detection tool for skin cancer based on artificial intelligence (AI).

The head of the UMY Student Team, Salsa Faatin Al-Dhinar, in his statement in Yogyakarta, Saturday, said that his team's interest stemmed from the number of skin cancer cases that had just been detected at an advanced stage.

"We want to prove that technology can help people take action faster," said a student at the Faculty of Pharmacy UGM class 2022, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, November 8.

Scanoma development, he said, was carried out through cross-disciplinary collaboration between students of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Electronic Engineering in the 2025 National Funding Student Creativity Program (PKM).

The tool design process runs from 7 July to 3 November 2025, involving a real-time skin lesion image analysis system using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method with an accuracy of 75.22 percent.

During the development process, according to him, the team faced a number of technical problems such as delays in the arrival of digital dermatoscope cameras, cable mismatch, and software system errors.

After all these obstacles were finally resolved, according to him, the team then designed Scanoma into a power-efficient and easy-to-use "Raspberry Pi" portable device, so that it could be used in health facilities with limited resources.

Pharmaceutical students play a role in skin lesion characterization and clinical parameter determination, while electronic engineering students are responsible for hardware integration and digital image processing systems.

This cross-disciplinary collaboration is an example of real application between health science and technology in responding to medical problems in society.

He hopes that Scanoma development can help health workers carry out early detection of skin cancer while increasing public awareness of the importance of regular skin checks.

"If this tool can help just one person recognize cancer symptoms more quickly, our struggle is not in vain," he said.