Publication date: Mar 27, 2025
Patients in the study’s intervention group underwent 3D total body photography in Brisbane, which created a digital 3D avatar of their skin surface. Further research is needed before 3D total body photography can be widely recommended as part of routine skin cancer screening. AI has the potential to improve skin cancer screening by automatically identifying suspicious lesions, tracking changes over time, and helping clinicians prioritize the highest-risk cases. The study findings suggest that while 3D total body photography could be useful in identifying more suspicious lesions, more research is needed on its role in the diagnostic pathway. A randomized controlled trial compared how effective 3D total body photography was when added to routine skin checks people were already receiving. This study also opens the doors to research into the role artificial intelligence (AI) could play in skin cancer monitoring and treatment. One such tool is 3D total body photography, which is a machine that contains 92 cameras and conducts a full photograph of the skin surface area.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Australians | Body |
| Dermatologists | Images |
| Increased | Imaging |
| Malignant | Improve |
| Tools | Intervention |
| Lesions | |
| Melanoma | |
| Monitoring | |
| Patients | |
| Photography | |
| Potential | |
| Screening | |
| Skin | |
| Tele | |
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Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | overdiagnosis |
| disease | MESH | squamous cell carcinomas |
| disease | MESH | basal cell carcinomas |
| pathway | KEGG | Melanoma |
| disease | MESH | melanoma |
| disease | MESH | skin cancer |