The Spectral View Dermoscope is the world’s first technology offering spectral contrast enhancement, selective imaging of surface and subsurface invisible features and skin lesion characterization through the measurement of their spectral characteristics. It operates in both reflectance and fluorescence imaging modes and probes in vivo, microstructural and functional alterations, which are not detectable with conventional color imaging-based Dermoscopes.
The SpectralView Dermoscope takes full advantage of spectroscopy to enhance the diagnostic confidence and to objectify clinical assessments with a simple, fast, safe and non-invasive examination.
Dr. L.T. Barroso: “The worldwide incidence of skin cancer has risen rapidly in the last decades, becoming one in three cancers nowadays. Currently, a person has a 4% chance of developing melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, which causes the greatest number of deaths. In the context of increasing incidence and mortality, skin cancer bears a heavy health and economic burden”.
Dr V. Anand: “The problem of skin disorders and skin cancer is spreading fast due to exposure to sunlight, pollutants, chemicals like nitrates, arsenic, and ultraviolet rays. This is an alarming disease, so it is necessary for everyone to pay attention toward this. Recognition of skin disease from dermoscopic images is a big challenge due to the low contrast, a huge inter/intra-class variation, and high visual similarity among the different skin lesions”.
Almost all dermoscopes in effect today work on the principle of visual or digital color imaging, restricting the visibility to the physical correlates of color perception. With only three bands of colors in the visible spectrum, the diagnosis is limited to the restraints of the Scope.
Spectral View technology breaks beyond the barriers of the visible spectrum, enabling multichannel visibility of invisible features of diagnostic importance.
(Imaging data courtesy of QCELL’s clinical data center)
Left up: Color image, right up: Erythema index mapping, left bottom: epidermal melanin content, right bottom: dermis melanin content. Color coded scale: Zero (black), low (blue, cyan), medium (green), high (red, yellow, white)
