Diagnostic informativeness of compressed digital epiluminescence microscopy images of pigmented skin lesions compared with photographs

Kittler, Harald; Seltenheim, M; Pehamberger, Hubert; Wolff, K; Binder, Michael

doi:10.1097/00008390-199806000-00008

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“…All images included in this study were compressed in JPEG format file to reduce the size from 17 megabytes (PICT format file) in the original image to 53 kilobytes in the final image. Nevertheless, the compressed image was virtually identical to the noncompressed one, as already demonstrated by Kittler et al 16 in 1998. The level of experience on dermoscopy was assessed for each investigator on the basis of the number of years of specialization on pigmented skin tumors, number of years of work on dermoscopy, the number of seminars and/or workshops on dermoscopy attended and, finally, the number of publications on this topic.…”

Section: Teledermoscopy: State Of the Artsupporting

confidence: 72%

Jumping Into the Future Using Teledermoscopy

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Chimenti

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Background. Teledermoscopy uses telecommunication technologies to transfer images of pigmented skin lesions via the Internet for teleconsultation. Design. Clinical and dermoscopic images of 66 and 43 pigmented skin lesions achieved in two consecutive studies were sent by e‐mail to dermatologists with different degrees of experience in dermoscopy for a telediagnosis. All lesions included in these studies were surgically excised and diagnosed histopathologically. Results. The diagnostic concordance between the face‐to‐face diagnosis and the telediagnosis was 91% in the first study, whereas, in the second study, it varied from 76.7%–95.3%. The accuracy of the diagnoses in both studies was not related to the quality of the images, but did highly depend on the level of diagnostic difficulty of a given pigmented skin tumor and on the level of experience of each observer. ???Conclusions. Teleconsultation of dermoscopic images of pigmented skin lesions via e‐mail provides a similar degree of diagnostic accuracy as “face‐to‐face” diagnosis when the diagnosis is made by a dermatologist confident with dermoscopy.

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Section: Teledermoscopy: State Of the Artsupporting

confidence: 72%

Jumping Into the Future Using Teledermoscopy

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“…The currently available digital dermoscopic systems already have an acceptable picture quality which comes close to a photograph. 74 Digital images offer the possibility of computer storage and retrieval of dermoscopic images and patient data. 48,[75][76][77][78] Some systems even offer the potential of ''computerassisted diagnosis.''…”

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Dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions

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Oliviero

et al. 2005

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“…Nonexperts in dermoscopy have been shown to benefit from computer-based training. 15 Digital dermoscopic images have been shown to be as informative as photographic slides, 16 so the use of digital images for assessment of the diagnostic methods is justified.…”

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