Reflectance confocal microscopy of skin in vivo: From bench to bedside

M Rajadhyaksha, A Marghoob, A Rossi… - Lasers in surgery …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Following more than two decades of effort, reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) imaging
of skin was granted codes for reimbursement by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

Technological advances for the detection of melanoma: Advances in diagnostic techniques

L Fried, A Tan, S Bajaj, TN Liebman, D Polsky… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Managing the balance between accurately identifying early stage melanomas while
avoiding obtaining biopsy specimens of benign lesions (ie, overbiopsy) is the major …

Effect of reflectance confocal microscopy for suspect lesions on diagnostic accuracy in melanoma: a randomized clinical trial

G Pellacani, F Farnetani, S Ciardo, J Chester… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have concluded that given data
paucity, a comparison of reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) with dermoscopy is …

[HTML][HTML] Introduction to reflectance confocal microscopy and its use in clinical practice

A Levine, O Markowitz - JAAD case reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a novel technology that provides noninvasive, in
vivo imaging of the skin at nearly histologic resolution. In 2016, the US Centers for Medicare …

[HTML][HTML] Melanoma early detection: big data, bigger picture

T Petrie, R Samatham, AM Witkowski, A Esteva… - Journal of Investigative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Innovative technologies, including novel communication and imaging tools, are affecting
dermatology in profound ways. A burning question for the field is whether we will …

Reflectance confocal microscopy diagnostic accuracy for malignant melanoma in different clinical settings: systematic review and meta‐analysis

C Pezzini, S Kaleci, J Chester… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The diagnostic accuracy of reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) of
cutaneous malignant melanoma (MM) seems promising. However, clinical scenarios in …

Advances in the use of reflectance confocal microscopy in melanoma

A Waddell, P Star, P Guitera - Melanoma management, 2018 - Future Medicine
In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a noninvasive high-resolution skin imaging
tool that has become an important adjunct to clinical exam, dermoscopy and histopathology …

Melanoma: How and when to consider clinical diagnostic technologies

L Skudalski, R Waldman, PE Kerr… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
In response to rising rates of melanoma worldwide, novel noninvasive melanoma detection
techniques are emerging to facilitate the early detection of melanoma and decrease …

[HTML][HTML] Utilizing machine learning for image quality assessment for reflectance confocal microscopy

K Kose, A Bozkurt, C Alessi-Fox, DH Brooks… - Journal of Investigative …, 2020 - Elsevier
In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) enables clinicians to examine lesions'
morphological and cytological information in epidermal and dermal layers while reducing …

Segmentation of cellular patterns in confocal images of melanocytic lesions in vivo via a multiscale encoder-decoder network (MED-Net)

K Kose, A Bozkurt, C Alessi-Fox, M Gill, C Longo… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
In-vivo optical microscopy is advancing into routine clinical practice for non-invasively
guiding diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases, and thus beginning to reduce …