Morphological Diagnosis of Skin Disease: A Study of the Living and Gross Pathology of the Skin

Dahl, Mark V.

doi:10.1001/archderm.136.10.1279

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“…For dermatological diseases, indicants for diagnosis are usually visual, and the art of visual pattern recognition is an essential part of dermatological diagnosis (2), even though morphology is being somewhat neglected in contemporary dermatology (3). So, to be a good dermatologist, the physician has to spend much time with the atlas, photographs, or patients to know what he or she sees and needs to see (2, 4). Only after sufficient and considerable time of training, dermatology residents can describe skin lesions accurately and diagnose them correctly.…”

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A Novel Computer-Assisted Algorithmic Method for Differential Diagnosis of Dermatological Diseases

Ahn

Kang

Yoon

et al. 2005

The Journal of Dermatology

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To deal with human surface locations electronically, it is essential to establish a designation method to code the sites. For the development of site designation methods and databases, dermatological textbooks, atlantes and clinical photographs were collected and reviewed. The sites were systematically named, numbered, and mapped on human models. The whole human surface was divided into 484 segments, and then assembled into 15 groups and 29 subgroups. After establishing the site designation method, we constructed a database of the sites of occurrence of dermatological diseases, and a database of age, sex, signs and symptoms. More than 700 diseases were analyzed and coded into the database. To gather information on the site of a particular disease, not only textbooks, and atlantes of dermatology, but also photographs obtained during clinical practices were reviewed, as clinical photos of patients can be more delicate than the descriptions in textbooks. The prototype of a computer assisted dermatological diagnosing system was made using site a designation method and the databases. This interactive computer program worked relatively well as a helpful guide or dermatological diagnosing tool. Further diseases are being added to the databases.

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