Melanoma screening with cellular phones.
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2007-05-30
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BACKGROUND Mobile teledermatology has recently been shown to be suitable for teledermatology despite limitations in image definition in preliminary studies The unique aspect of mobile teledermatology is that this system represents a filtering or triage system allowing a sensitive approach for the management of patients with emergent skin diseases METHODOLOGY PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In this study we investigated the feasibility of teleconsultation using a new generation of cellular phones in pigmented skin lesions 18 patients were selected consecutively in the Pigmented Skin Lesions Clinic of the Department of Dermatology Medical University of Graz Graz Austria Clinical and dermoscopic images were acquired using a Sony Ericsson with a built in two megapixel camera Two teleconsultants reviewed the images on a specific web application http www dermahandy net default asp where images had been uploaded in JPEG format Compared to the face to face diagnoses the two teleconsultants obtained a score of correct telediagnoses of 89 and of 91 5 reporting the clinical and dermoscopic images respectively CONCLUSIONS SIGNIFICANCE The present work is the first study performing mobile teledermoscopy using cellular phones Mobile teledermatology has the potential to become an easy applicable tool for everyone and a new approach for enhanced self monitoring for skin cancer screening in the spirit of the eHealth program of the European Commission Information for Society and Media