First, we had to do our research on lung cancer. We began to research lung cancer and the types of symptoms, and we recorded everything that we learned in a notebook so that we could refer back to it during the creation of our app. We soon learned that there are different forms of lung cancer and we discovered that tumors can occur within the lungs. There are a few calculators that one can insert information that can help them figure out if they have lung cancer, but there is no app except SkinVision (an app that detects skin cancer using images of the external body) and LUNGevity (another app that allows for the communication between patients and doctors).

We took all of this information we had gathered and started mapping out a plan. We soon decided to make a survey that the user can take so that there is a better accuracy. We began to map out our survey, as well as the key information we would have to include in within the questions, such as “have you experienced any pain in your chest or ribs”. We always made sure that our questions correlated with symptoms of lung cancer. Also, we have been constantly adding questions to our survey so that we can always make the results more accurate. Continuing on, we finished mapping out our app – login page/sign up page, customer/ person using the app, survey, results page. Once we got our design and basic functions mapped out, we then started to create an actual prototype of the app. While we were creating the prototype, we also began to set up our image classification by collecting various kinds of images of lungs infected with tumors and healthy lungs.