Melanoma Screening with Cellular Phones
PLoS ONEPublished 30 May 2007Open access
Cesare Massone, Rainer Hofmann‐Wellenhof, Verena Ahlgrimm‐Siess, Gerald Gabler, Christoph Ebner, H. Peter Soyer
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This work is the first study performing mobile teledermoscopy using cellular phones in pigmented skin lesions, and has the potential to become an easy applicable tool for everyone and a new approach for enhanced self-monitoring for skin cancer screening in the spirit of the eHealth program of the European Commission Information for Society and Media.
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The present work is the first study performing mobile teledermoscopy using cellular phones. Mobile teledermatology has the potential to become an easy applicable tool for everyone and a new approach for enhanced self-monitoring for skin cancer screening in the spirit of the eHealth program of the European Commission Information for Society and Media.
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