The background to this research is that frequent medical screening of the general population for melanoma is not feasible. The real challenge of this project is to develop an automatic process for detecting any potential melanoma. To this end, the project aims to design an algorithm to build a novel diagnostic aid that makes use of the similarity and disparity of pigmented lesions in the same patient. To achieve this, we need to obtain and structure a large database of images grouping all pigmented lesions per patient according to their similarities as perceived by dermatologists.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,000
Whole body image acquisition using the VECTRA 3D Whole Body 360 Imaging System to detect potential melanoma
Hôpital de la Conception
Marseille, France
development and validation of algorithms to identify lesions clinically suspected of being melanoma by a dermatologist (potentially malignant and/or ugly duckling).
Comparison of the results given by the analysis of the images by 3 dermatologists or by the software. Estimation of sensitivity and specificity thresholds of at least 93% (accuracy level 5%).
Time frame: from enrollement to until 6 month
concordance rate for malignant annotations
concordance between the malignant yes-no annotations of each of the three dermatologists (2 to 2) will be tested.
Time frame: From enrollement to 6 month after
concordance rate for ugly duckling
concordance between the ugly duckling yes-no annotations of each of the three dermatologists (2 to 2) will be tested.
Time frame: From enrollement to 6 month after
calculation of the proportion of melanomas confirmed by anatomopathology
For each lesion identified as malignant or ugly duckling by the gold standard and removed for histological analysis: calculation of the proportion of melanomas confirmed by pathology.
Time frame: From enrollement to 6 month after
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