Monday, July 30, 2012

New diagnostics for melanoma detection: from artificial intelligence to RNA microarrays

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22830402


 2012 Jul;8(7):819-27.

New diagnostics for melanoma detection: from artificial intelligence to RNA microarrays.

Source

Department of Dermatology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Abstract

Early detection of melanoma remains crucial to ensuring a favorable prognosis. Dermoscopy and total body photography are well-established noninvasive aids that increase the diagnostic accuracy of dermatologists in their daily routine, beyond that of a naked-eye examination. New noninvasive diagnostic techniques, such as reflectance confocal microscopy, multispectral digital imaging and RNA microarrays, are currently being investigated to determine their utility for melanoma detection. This review presents emerging technologies for noninvasive melanoma diagnosis, and discusses their advantages and limitations.

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