Utility of Digital Dermoscopy in the Skin Cancer Screening Clinic
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Feasibility study to evaluate utility of the BARCO NV Digital Dermatoscope in the Skin Cancer Screening clinic
IRAS ID
234237
Contact name
Rubeta N H Matin
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
BARCO NV
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
CIV-17-11-022167, Eudamed number
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Summary of Research
This feasibility study aims to evaluate the use of the BARCO NV digital dermatoscope (non-CE marked device) in the skin cancer clinic. All eligible patients attending the Dermatology outpatient skin cancer clinic will be invited to participate. Patients who consent to the study will undergo standard care which will include medical photography of skin lesion(s) and appropriate management as determined by the Consultant Dermatologist in clinic. In addition to standard care, patients will undergo photography of the same lesion(s) using the BARCO NV digital dermatoscope. There will be no other intervention and no additional hospital visits in relation to the study. Use of the device will not influence the clinical management of the patient.
A detailed experience questionnaire will be administered to all clinicians using the BARCO device to explore their opinion on its ease of use and features.
All standard macroscopic & dermoscopic images will be taken by OUH medical illustration department and stored on the ‘Fotoweb’ database (in keeping with current standard practice). Trained Dermatology Consultants, Dermatology Registrars, Research nurses or Medical Photographers, will take BARCO NV device images. A database of all BARCO images will be collected and stored on a dedicated NHS computer separate from the patient clinical record. Standard medical photography images will be stored on Fotoweb as per standard NHS clinical care.
Data will be anonymised and collated and then sent securely to BARCO for further analyses to enable optimization of the BARCO device and for development of diagnostic algorithms in the future.
Summary of Results
Overall 13 patients were recruited and images were taken. No analyses were performed.
REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SC/0078
Date of REC Opinion
27 Feb 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion