Κατεύθυνση Κοσμητολογία - Δερματοφαρμακολογία
Library of the School of Science

2017-07-07

2017

Anagnostou Vasiliki

Δρ. Ν. Δρακούλης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Τομέα Φαρμακευτικής Τεχνολογίας, Τμήμα Φαρμακευτικής, Σχολή Επιστημών Υγείας, ΕΚΠΑ

ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΤΥΠΗΣ ΚΑΜΕΡΑΣ ΔΕΡΜΑΤΟΣΚΟΠΗΣΗΣ DTS® (DermaToScope) & ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΑΠΕΙΚΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΕΡΜΑΤΟΣΚΟΠΙΟΥ DERMLITE II HYBRID®

Greek

DERMATOSCOPIC CAMERA PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT DTS® (DermaToScope) & COMPARATIVE IMAGING CAPABILITY VERSUS DERMLITE II HYBRID® DERMATOSCOPE

Dermoscopy or skin surface microscopy or epiluminescent microscopy, is a technique that allows the visualization of melachromatic skin lesions in vivo, with the use of a special device called dermatoscope. This technique represents the correlation between clinical and histological imaging, allowing the early detection of melanoma. Depending on the experience of the physician and the depth of melanoma, it can be clinically detected in a percentage around 10-27% and it offers a great expanding field for research and study with the use of innovative devices. In the recent years, dermoscopy has been used in the diagnosis of non melachromatic skin lesions as well such as basal cell carcinoma, psoriasis and scabies.
The purpose of this study is the development of a digital system of dermoscopy that consists of a 3D-designed dermatoscope, which can capture in high quality the characteristics of skin lesions-moles and the design of special computer software in order the dermoscopic images to be stored straight to the computer. This device aims to facilitate the diagnostic process of skin conditions and to contribute in the evolution of telemedicine, teledermatology and teledermoscopy. Finally, the purpose of this study includes the comparison of our dermoscopy device with the world-widely used dermatoscope DermLite II Hybrid®, in order to determine whether the developed dermatoscope is superior, inferior or equivalent to DermLite II Hybrid®.
The designed dermatoscope that was named DTS®(DermaToScope), was designed in our laboratory with the guidance of a team of optoelectronic and biomedicine engineers from the National Technical University of Athens. The development of DTS® occurred in 3 phases and the alterations in these stages were aiming to the safer detection of melanoma and the highest possible quality of the dermoscopic image. For this study we examined 80 volunteers for melanoma and we captured dermoscopically 126 moles.
Comparing the dermoscopic images of DTS® with those of DermLite II Hybrid®, we observed that in the final stage of development (Phase 3) both dermatoscopes appear to be equal when it comes to the quality of the captured image. In conclusion, we can say that the designed dermatoscope DTS® provides us with dermoscopic images similar to the widely-used DermLite II Hybrid®, which is a very promising result for the development of our device in the future.

Science

Technology

dermoscopy, dermatoscope, melanoma

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