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The significance of spectrophotometric image analysis for diagnosis of the melanocytic skin tumours in association with their thickness

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Cutaneous melanoma is a melanocytic skin tumour, which has very poor prognosis while it is highly resistant to treatment and tends to metastasize. Thickness of melanoma is one of the… Click to show full abstract

Cutaneous melanoma is a melanocytic skin tumour, which has very poor prognosis while it is highly resistant to treatment and tends to metastasize. Thickness of melanoma is one of the most important biomarker for stage of disease, prognosis and surgery planning. In this study, we hypothesized that the analysis of spectrophotometric (SIAscope) images can provide the information about skin tumour thickness.

Keywords: melanocytic skin; analysis; significance spectrophotometric; spectrophotometric image; thickness

Journal Title: Skin Research and Technology
Year Published: 2018

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