Digital photography in skin cancer screening by mobile units in remote areas of Brazil

BMC Dermatology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Silveira, Carlos Eduardo Goulart ^a   Silva, Thiago Buosi ^a   Fregnani, José Humberto Guerreiro Tavares ^a   Vieira, René Aloisio da Costa ^a   Haikel, Raphael Luiz ^a   Syrjänen, Kari ^a,b   Carvalho, André Lopes ^a   Mauad, Edmundo Carvalho ^a  

^a BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Diagnosis; Public health; Skin cancer; Teledermatology; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAMERA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOBILE PREVENTION UNIT; ONCOLOGIST; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN EXAMINATION; TELEDIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELECONSULTATION; TELEPATHOLOGY;

BRAZIL; DERMOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 84964314378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14715945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12895-014-0019-1     Document Type: Article

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