Publications by authors named "Clara N Curiel-Lewandrowski"
Background: A common terminology for diagnosis is critically important for clinical communication, education, research and artificial intelligence. Prevailing lexicons are limited in fully representing skin neoplasms.
Objectives: To achieve expert consensus on diagnostic terms for skin neoplasms and their hierarchical mapping.
Background: Despite the increasing ubiquity and accessibility of teledermatology applications, few studies have comprehensively surveyed their features and technical standards. Importantly, features implemented after the point of capture are often intended to augment image utilization, while technical standards affect interoperability with existing healthcare systems. We aim to comprehensively survey image utilization features and technical characteristics found within publicly discoverable digital skin imaging applications.
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- The study examines the increasing use of smartphone images in dermatology for assessing skin lesions but highlights issues with image quality affecting clinical outcomes.
- Researchers evaluated 191 digital skin imaging applications based on features that improve image quality and how these apps cater to different audiences and functions.
- Findings reveal that only 57% of apps included features to enhance image acquisition, with greater feature richness found in consumer-facing, educational apps for both patients and providers.
We have developed a portable confocal microscope (PCM) that uses an inexpensive near-infrared LED as the light source. Use of the spatially incoherent light source significantly reduced the speckle contrast. The PCM device was manufactured at the material cost of approximately 5000 and weighed only 1 kg.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To develop a photographic sun damage assessment scale for forearm skin and test its feasibility and utility for consistent classification of sun damage.
Design: For a blinded comparison, 96 standardized 8 × 10 digital photographs of participants' forearms were taken. Photographs were graded by an expert dermatologist using an existing 9-category dermatologic assessment scoring scale until all categories contained photographs representative of each of 4 clinical signs.