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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2177 |
| Journal | Applied Sciences (Switzerland) |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Early online date | 28 May 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2019 |
Abstract
Dermatoscopes are routinely used in skin cancer screening but are rarely employed for the diagnosis of other skin conditions. Broader application is promising from a diagnostic point of view as biopsies for differential diagnosis may be avoided but it requires non-contact devices allowing a comparably large field of view that are not commercially available today. Autofocus and color reproducibility are specific challenges for the development of dermatoscopy for application beyond cancer screening. We present a prototype for such a system including solutions for autofocus and color reproducibility independent of ambient lighting. System performance includes sufficiently high feature resolution of up to 30 μm and feature size scaling fulfilling the requirements to apply the device in regular skin cancer screening.
Keywords
- Biomedical imaging, Dermatoscopy, Skin screening
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- General Materials Science
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Instrumentation
- Engineering(all)
- General Engineering
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Process Chemistry and Technology
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Vol. 9, No. 11, 2177, 01.06.2019.
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T1 - Non-contact dermatoscope with ultra-bright light source and liquid lens-based autofocus function
AU - Fricke, Dierk
AU - Denker, Evgeniia
AU - Heratizadeh, Annice
AU - Werfel, Thomas
AU - Wollweber, Merve
AU - Roth, Bernhard
N1 - Funding information: This project is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Culture and Science (MWK) through the program Tailored Light and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453).
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Dermatoscopes are routinely used in skin cancer screening but are rarely employed for the diagnosis of other skin conditions. Broader application is promising from a diagnostic point of view as biopsies for differential diagnosis may be avoided but it requires non-contact devices allowing a comparably large field of view that are not commercially available today. Autofocus and color reproducibility are specific challenges for the development of dermatoscopy for application beyond cancer screening. We present a prototype for such a system including solutions for autofocus and color reproducibility independent of ambient lighting. System performance includes sufficiently high feature resolution of up to 30 μm and feature size scaling fulfilling the requirements to apply the device in regular skin cancer screening.
AB - Dermatoscopes are routinely used in skin cancer screening but are rarely employed for the diagnosis of other skin conditions. Broader application is promising from a diagnostic point of view as biopsies for differential diagnosis may be avoided but it requires non-contact devices allowing a comparably large field of view that are not commercially available today. Autofocus and color reproducibility are specific challenges for the development of dermatoscopy for application beyond cancer screening. We present a prototype for such a system including solutions for autofocus and color reproducibility independent of ambient lighting. System performance includes sufficiently high feature resolution of up to 30 μm and feature size scaling fulfilling the requirements to apply the device in regular skin cancer screening.
KW - Biomedical imaging
KW - Dermatoscopy
KW - Skin screening
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U2 - 10.3390/app9112177
DO - 10.3390/app9112177
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JO - Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
JF - Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
SN - 2076-3417
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