MoleMapper is both a free app available on the Apple App Store and a research project conducted at Oregon Health & Science University. From 2015 through 2022, users of the app could choose to participate in the research by digitally consenting and then providing information about themselves and images of moles taken with their iPhones. The research project has closed, but the app is still available although it is no longer being maintained or updated.
As part of the research program curated and deidentified data have been made available to research teams. These can be found on the Sage Bionetworks Synapse platform located here:
OHSU MoleMapper Smartphone Skin Lesion Images
Published Papers
Webster, Daniel E., Christine Suver, Megan Doerr, Erin Mounts, Larsson Omberg, Tracy Petrie, Sancy A. Leachman, Andrew D. Trister, and Brian M. Bot. 2017. "The Mole Mapper Study, mobile phone skin imaging and melanoma risk data collected using ResearchKit." Scientific Data 4 (1): 170005. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.5.
Petrie, Tracy, Dan Webster, Sancy A. Leachman, and Brian M. Bot. 2019. "MoleMapper: An Application for Crowdsourcing Mole Images to Advance Melanoma Early-Detection Research." Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery 38 (1): E49–E56. https://doi.org/10.12788/j.sder.2019.001.
Petrie, Tracy, Ravikant Samatham, Alexander M. Witkowski, Andre Esteva, and Sancy A. Leachman. 2019. "Melanoma Early Detection: Big Data, Bigger Picture." Journal of Investigative Dermatology 139 (1): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2018.06.187.