Automated Identification of Suspicious Pigmented Lesions
When health care economists in Germany saw the melanoma mortality rate cut by a half when screening was performed at the primary care level, the government mandated the procedure and made it insurance-reimbursable. Private US health insurers are ready to follow suit and are investing. The tool that we are developing will significantly reduce the current high primary care-to-specialist referral rate to a practical level without missing true malignancies. This project seeks to meet that goal with a novel “whole body” optical imaging system.
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Name & Contact
Team Skin | skinteam@mit.edu
Project status
M+Visión project Jan 2015 – Sep 2015
Sector
Oncology. Primary Care. Dermatology. Melanoma.
Fellows
Judith Birkenfeld, Berta Martí Fuster, Luis Soenksen Martinez, Jason Tucker-Schwartz
Asif Naseem (visiting Fellow)
Collaborators
Arrate Muñoz Barrutia
UC3M
Norberto Malpica
URJC
Lidia Ardiaca
Centro de Salud la Paz Rivas Vaciamadrid
Jose Antonio Avilés Izquierdo
HGUGM
Ben Vakoc
Wellman Labs, MGH