DERMA/Care: An Advanced image-Processing Mobile Application for Monitoring Skin Cancer

This paper describes a mobile hardware/software system (DERMA/care) to help with screening of skin cancer (melanomas). Our system uses an inexpensive apparatus (microscope) and a smart phone (iPhone). These two components standalone are sufficient to capture highly detailed images for use by experts...

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Main Authors: Karargyris, A., Karargyris, O., Pantelopoulos, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
health
iOS
iPhone
Lesions
machine learning
Malignant tumors
melanomas
microscope
Microscopy
Mobile
Mobile communication
Skin
Skin cancer
skin cancer prevention
Support vector machines
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Summary:This paper describes a mobile hardware/software system (DERMA/care) to help with screening of skin cancer (melanomas). Our system uses an inexpensive apparatus (microscope) and a smart phone (iPhone). These two components standalone are sufficient to capture highly detailed images for use by experts with medical background. However the novelty of our system lies in the fact that we further improved the efficiency of the system by implementing an advanced image-processing framework to detect suspicious areas and help with skin cancer prevention. Our main goal was to demonstrate how smart phones could turn into powerful and intelligent machines and help large populations without expertise in low-resource settings.
ISSN:1082-3409
2375-0197
DOI:10.1109/ICTAI.2012.180