Advantages:
- It does not require high medical qualifications to obtain a preliminary diagnosis of melanoma
- Simultaneous use of two diagnostic strategies: using dermatoscopic criteria calculated from this image and searching for similar images in the database
- The possibility of improving the accuracy of melanoma diagnosis and expanding the list of diagnosed diseases by increasing the database of annotated images.
The development uses modern approaches to the search for similar images in the database, based on the construction of image descriptors based on the matrices of the common occurrence of pixel colors. This approach will expand the diagnostic capabilities of the system to other forms of skin cancer.
Information about the practical implementation of the MelaSearch program is installed on the BNTU cluster – the regional node of the IHSIT-CD project of the EU Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus cross-border cooperation program. For registered users, the Melabase2 program interface and user manuals are available at the link http://mon.grid.bntu.by/projects/melabase/files
A demo version of the program is available on the website http://ihsit-cd.eu
The program is used in five medical institutions in Belarus.