 Playing it Safe
in the Sun - Melanoma Identification
Australians enjoy a great outdoor lifestyle - but it comes at a price. We
have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world.
Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin
cancer. It can, however, be easily cured if detected early. However there is
a need to provide doctors with technology that can assess whether a lesion
is a melanoma or not with a high degree of reliability.
With one of the world's leading melanoma experts at the
Sydney Melanoma Unit and Australian medical instrumentation company,
Polartechnics Ltd, CSIRO Biotech Imaging has developed a digital mole
monitoring and analysis system called ‘SolarScan’ which is designed
to be used in doctors' surgeries as a diagnostic aide in detecting melanoma. From an image of a patient's skin lesion,
the Image Analysis software extracts and measures features considered by
experts to be important indicators of melanoma.
SolarScan has been sold to a number of skin cancer clinics and GPs'
surgeries in Australia and overseas.
For more information contact
Leanne Bischof |
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