Caution in melanoma risk analysis with smartphone application technology

Use of Smartphones for Early Detection of Melanoma: Systematic Review (Preprint)

“…Thirty-one studies were included in the review ( Figure 1): twenty studies had been published as original articles [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], six were conference papers [51][52][53][54][55][56] and five were research letters [57][58][59][60][61].…”

“…Fourteen studies had been conducted in Europe-Great Britain [33,40,43,60], Austria [34,51], Sweden [36,37], Ireland [61], Germany [45], Switzerland [48], Greece [56], The Netherlands [50] and France [39], nine in the USA [38,42,44,46,52,53,55,57,62], seven in Australia [32,35,41,47,49,58,59], and one in Singapore [54].…”

“…Twenty-one studies focused on patients with suspected melanoma lesions [32][33][34][35][36][37][39][40][41][42][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][58][59][60][61], while eight studies analysed images compiled in data banks [44,[52][53][54][55][56][57]61]. Among the twenty-one studies with patients, eleven included patients in primary care: either in the context of a screening campaign [39,46,48] or during targeted screening focusing on patients at an elevated risk of melanoma [32,35,58,59] or during opportunistic screening conducted in general practice [34,60]. For the other ten studies that included patients, the patients had already consulted a dermatologist [36,[40][41][42]45,47,[49][50]…”

Comparative Study of U-Healthcare Applications between Google Play Store and Apple iTunes App Store in Korea

“…Also, Robson et al reported a smartphone application for assessing melanoma risk [14]. Tolentino and Park developed a u-healthcare system to provide continuous monitoring of patients in an emergency care setting [15].…”

An Ensemble Template Matching and Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme Towards Early Stage Detection of Melanoma

“…More than 1.75 billion such users have been predicted for 2015, making these devices ideal candidates for accessing moles through smartphone applications that may be used to facilitate self-skin examination and distance monitoring of patients by the expert physicians. A number of applications are nowadays commercially available for melanoma detection on the basis of smartphone-camera generated plain photography images (Robson, et al, 2012, Stoecker, et al, 2013, Wolf, et al, 2013, Vañó-Galván, et al, 2015.…”