RESUMO
This chapter presents the state of the art on mobile teledermoscopy applications, utilizing smartphones able to store digital images of skin areas depicting regions of interest (lesions) and perform self-assessment or communicate the captured images with expert physicians. Mobile teledermoscopy systems consist of a mobile application that can acquire and identify moles in skin images and classify them according their severity and Cloud infrastructure exploiting computational and storage resources. The chapter presents some indicative mobile applications for skin lesions assessment and describes a proposed system developed by our team that can perform skin lesion evaluation both on the phone and on the Cloud, depending on the network availability.
Assuntos
Telefone Celular/instrumentação , Dermoscopia/instrumentação , Melanoma/diagnóstico , Nevo/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Cutâneas/diagnóstico , Telemedicina/instrumentação , Diagnóstico por Imagem , Humanos , Interpretação de Imagem Assistida por Computador , Disseminação de Informação , Internet , Melanoma/patologia , Nevo/patologia , Neoplasias Cutâneas/patologia , Software , Telemedicina/métodosRESUMO
This paper presents a smart phone based system for storing digital images of skin areas depicting regions of interest (lesions) and performing self-assessment of these skin lesions within these areas. The system consists of a mobile application that can acquire and identify moles in skin images and classify them according their severity into melanoma, nevus and benign lesions. The proposed system includes also a cloud infrastructure exploiting computational and storage resources. This cloud-based architecture provides interoperability and support of various mobile environments as well as flexibility in enhancing the classification model. Initial evaluation results are quite promising and indicate that the application can be used for the task of skin lesions initial assessment.