Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Patient acceptance and diagnostic utility of automated digital image analysis of pigmented skin lesions

Abstract

Background  Computerized analysis of pigmented skin lesions may help to increase diagnostic accuracy for melanoma, help to avoid unnecessary procedures and reduce health care costs.


Objectives  We evaluated both the patient acceptance and diagnostic utility of such an analysis tool in a real clinical setting.


Methods  Two hundred nine consecutive patients (median age: 34 years, range: 2–73 years), who were concerned about a pigmented skin lesion, answered a questionnaire about their attitude towards computerized analysis and their confidence in the resulting findings. Using a dermoscopy analyser, their skin lesions (n = 219) were then grouped into ...

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