Digital Dermatoscopy — Mole & Pigmented Lesion Check

Dermatoscopy is a non-invasive optical technique that uses polarised or cross-polarised light and magnification to visualise the internal architecture of pigmented skin lesions — structures invisible to the naked eye. A standard dermoscope reveals pigment network patterns, regression structures, vascular patterns, blue-white veils and other dermoscopic criteria that characterise benign versus potentially malignant lesions. Digital dermatoscopy captures…

At CLED the platform is the microDERM® digital dermatoscope, which connects to the DANAOS study database — a neural network trained on a large European dataset of dermoscopically characterised lesions. This network provides automated ABCD-E rule analysis (Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Dermoscopic structures, Evolution) and a risk stratification score. MUDr. Moskalyková reviews the automated assessment in the full clinical context, including lesion history…

For patients with multiple pigmented lesions, the digital archive enables a structured surveillance protocol: at each visit, all lesions of concern are re-imaged and compared side by side with the previous visit's images. This time-comparison approach can detect even subtle changes in size, colour, border regularity or internal structure that the unaided eye could not quantify over time. Early detection of change is the primary value: a melanoma…