A non-contact remote digital dermoscope to support cancer screening and diagnosis of inflammatory skin disease

authored by

Merve Meinhardt-Wollweber, Annice Heratizadeh, Chandrajit Basu, Axel Günther, Sebastian Schlangen, Thomas Werfel, Steffen Emmert, Holger A. Haenssle, Bernhard Roth

Abstract

Dermoscopy systems that do not require direct skin contact open up the possibility to overcome limitations of established dermoscopes and promote application of this diagnostic tool beyond skin cancer screening. In this work, we present a non-contact remote digital dermoscope with large field of view, high resolution and true color imaging.Wereport preliminary clinical results for imaging of melanocytic nevi and two common inflammatory skin diseases, psoriasis and lichen ruber planus, obtained in non-contact mode demonstrating the potential of this method for skin cancer screening and for diagnosis of inflammatory disease. In the future, the system can be applied for whole-body automated cancer screening and support diagnostics of inflammatory skin diseases in the form of a hand-held device.

Organisation(s)

Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT)

External Organisation(s)

Hannover Medical School (MHH)
University of Göttingen

Type

Article

Journal

Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express

Volume

3

No. of pages

12

Publication date

13.09.2017

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Nursing

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/aa84d3 (Access: Closed)