Consumer digital camera detects tumor

Strange but true story, according to the BBC:

A photograph taken at a family wedding may have helped to save the life of an 18-month-old girl.

The picture of Sophie Cooke with her twin sister Molly should have showed their sets of blue eyes, but instead Sophie’s left eye was completely black.

Reminds me of those portable health-check devices in the sci-fi movies that are usually carried by a medic. Nice to think that there is more value to the information being captured than just the image itself, but it also raises some interesting data classification questions. The photograph, when viewed by the right person, suddently became protected health information.

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