An image database of more than 1 million skin lesions will be used for detecting melanoma by the American researchers. The database will come from patients from New Zealand and Australia. 

This would also help melanoma in getting identified at an early stage.

A deal has been signed by New Zealand company MoleMap with the New York University. MoleMap for monitoring potentially cancerous changes using digital imagery has created a software. 

MoleMap clinics in New Zealand and Australia have in the past seven years identified almost 1000 cases of melanoma and have carried out more than 120,000 examinations, in which over 1 million lesions have been assesed.

Chief executive Adrian Bowling called the technology as a diagnostic tool after New York University's decision to adopt it.

By using this technology researchers will be able to identify melanoma at an earlier stage.