State of the art of diagnostic technology for early-stage melanoma

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 715-723

  Guitera, Pascale ^a,b   Menzies, Scott W ^b,c  

^a MELANOMA INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

automated instrument; dermoscopy; diagnosis; melanoma; multiphoton microscopy; optical coherence tomography; reflectance confocal microscopy; reflex transmission imaging; sequential digital dermoscopy imaging; total body photography; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOTAL BODY PHOTOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATION; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955876566     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.11.43     Document Type: Review

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