Research Article
A Novel Framework for Supervised Mobile Assessment and Risk Triage of Skin Lesions
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259254, author={Lu\^{\i}s Rosado and Maria Vasconcelos and Fernando Correia and Nuno Costa}, title={A Novel Framework for Supervised Mobile Assessment and Risk Triage of Skin Lesions}, proceedings={9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2015}, month={8}, keywords={malignant melanoma detection abcd rule of dermatoscopy mobile monitoring image analysis}, doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259254} }- Luís Rosado
Maria Vasconcelos
Fernando Correia
Nuno Costa
Year: 2015
A Novel Framework for Supervised Mobile Assessment and Risk Triage of Skin Lesions
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259254
Abstract
Mobile Teledermatology is a promising tool with the potential to empower patients to adopt an active role in managing their own health status. The main objective of this work is to create a mobile-based framework for risk triage and early diagnosis of skin cancers, with the active involvement of an online community of dermatologists. The presented prototype is composed by the following components: 1) Mobile Application for the patients; 2) Back-end Server that hosts the image processing module and database; and 3) Web Interface for the dermatologists. Using the mobile application, the patients can send a check-up to the back-end server, composed by an image and additional information of the considered skin lesion. The check-up image is automatically analyzed using supervised classification, according to the ABCD Rule and Overall Risk. The system generates an analysis report for each check-up, which will assist the doctors in the check-up risk assessment. After the doctor’s validation, a report is sent to the patient’s mobile application, and the validated data is used to retrain the supervised classifiers. The overall system architecture and functionalities are briefly described.
