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DermAI Pakistan

On-device dermatology decision support for low-resource clinics. A quantized deep learning classifier that runs entirely on the phone.

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The problem

Dermatology expertise is scarce outside major cities, and connectivity in rural clinics is unreliable. DermAI brings a decision-support classifier to the clinician's own device, so inference never waits on a server round trip.

Approach

  • EfficientNetV2-S classifier trained for common skin conditions, then quantized to INT8 TFLite for fast, low-memory inference on mid-range Android hardware.
  • Native C / ARM NEON preprocessing bridged into Flutter through Dart FFI, so the image pipeline runs at native speed rather than in the Dart VM.
  • Explainability stays server-side, where Grad-CAM and SHAP produce heatmaps and attributions for clinician review without bloating the on-device model.

Why it matters

The whole inference path works offline and degrades gracefully where bandwidth does not exist. A cloud layer adds interpretability whenever a connection is available.