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Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S., with melanoma accounting for more than 75 percent of skin cancer deaths. However, despite its fatality, if discovered early, skin cancer is highly curable. Dermoscopy is a non-invasive imaging process for skin cancer screening, a first line of defense. Traditionally, doctors augment personal expertise with medical literature that is typically indexed by disease rather than by relevance to the current case. Intel researchers have built a system that enables doctors to make more informed decisions about a given case, by presenting relevant annotated cases from large medical image databases. The system pulls images from the database based on the actual content of the image, not text or metadata associated with the image. With the help of this system, a Physician could take a photograph of a skin lesion and compare that image to thousands of images in the database. The most similar images would be presented to the physician to assist in diagnosis and treatment decisions.