Showing Skin Lesion Information

• US 20110210984A1
• Filed: 05/03/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: STRATA Skin Sciences, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Mela Sciences, Inc.
• Inventors: Roy, Mrinalini, Wojton, Maciej, Adrian, Joanna S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,452,063 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/634
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/256 having a database of accessory information, e.g. including context sensitive help or scientific articles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/258 providing specific settings for specific users
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/444 Evaluating skin marks, e.g. mole, nevi, tumour, scar
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/744 Displaying an avatar, e.g. an animated cartoon character
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/002 for television cameras

Abstract

Among other things, on a two-dimensional electronic display are shown simultaneously: (a) at least a partial body view of a surface of the human model on which a location of a skin lesion on a corresponding real human has been indicated, and (b) an image of the lesion area that corresponds to the partial body view of the human model.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising

showing simultaneously, on a two-dimensional electronic display, (a) at least a partial body view of a surface of the human model on which a location of a skin lesion on a corresponding real human has been indicated, and (b) an image of the lesion area that corresponds to the partial body view of the human model.

2. The method of claim 1 also including showing, simultaneously with the partial body view and the image of the lesion, a thumbnail of the partial body view.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the partial body view bears an indication of the location of the skin lesion.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the image comprises a reconstructed dermoscopic image.

5. The method of claim 1 in which the image comprises a traditional dermoscopic image.

6. The method of claim 1 also comprising enabling a user to choose whether to display the image of the lesion or a model of the lesion.

8. The method of claim 6 in which the image comprises a reconstructed dermoscopic image.

9. The method of claim 6 in which the image comprises a traditional dermoscopic image.

10. The method of claim 6 in which the status of the scanned image comprises progress in completion of an analysis of the image.

11. The method of claim 6 in which the legend comprises a color.

12. The method of claim 6 in which the legend comprises an icon.

13. The method of claim 6 in which the legend comprises a progress bar.

15. The method of claim 1 in which the image comprises a reconstructed dermoscopic image.

16. The method of claim 1 in which the image comprises a traditional dermoscopic image.

17. The method of claim 1 in which the next diagnostic or treatment step comprises biopsy.

18. The method of claim 1 in which the next diagnostic or treatment step comprises observation.

19. The method of claim 1 in which the next diagnostic or treatment step is indicated by a color.

7. A computer-implemented method comprising

showing, on a two-dimensional electronic display, an image of the lesion location and indications of skin lesions on the skin of a real human corresponding to the shown image, and showing legends, for the respective skin lesions, each indicating a status of a corresponding skin lesion and a status of a scanned image of the skin lesion.

14. A computer-implemented method comprising

showing simultaneously, on a two-dimensional electronic display, a list of rows where each row is an image representing the lesion location and the next diagnostic or treatment step in a column wise list format.