Accuracy of tele-consultation on management decisions of lesions suspect for melanoma using reflectance confocal microscopy as a stand-alone diagnostic tool.

Alon ScopeS W DuszaG PellacaniM GillS GonzalezM A MarchettiH S RabinovitzA A MarghoobC Alessi-FoxA C Halpern

Published in: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV (2018)

Reflectance confocal microscopy tele-consultation of especially challenging lesions, based on image review without benefit of clinical or dermoscopy images, may be associated with limited diagnostic accuracy and interobserver agreement. Architectural and stromal criteria may emerge as potentially useful and reproducible criteria for melanoma diagnosis.

Keyphrases

palliative care
deep learning
skin cancer
convolutional neural network
optical coherence tomography
machine learning