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ReviewJournal of digital imaging2018

Transforming Dermatologic Imaging for the Digital Era: Metadata and Standards.

Liam J Caffery, David Clunie, Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, Josep Malvehy, H Peter Soyer, Allan C Halpern

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Review in Journal of digital imaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. DermIDS: Dermatology imaging data structure for scalable and interoperable AI systems.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Liam J CafferyCentre for Online Health, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland, Ground Floor, Building 33, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, QLD, 4102, Australia. l.caffery@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-1899-7534
David CluniePixelMed LLC, Bangor, PA, USA.
Clara Curiel-LewandrowskiUniversity of Arizona Cancer Center/Skin Cancer Institute and Division of Dermatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Josep MalvehyDermatology Department, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBER de enfermedades raras, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
H Peter SoyerDermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Allan C HalpernDermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
The University of Queensland · AUCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red · ESMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging is increasingly being used in dermatology for documentation, diagnosis, and management of cutaneous disease. The lack of standards for dermatologic imaging is an impediment to clinical uptake. Standardization can occur in image acquisition, terminology, interoperability, and metadata. This paper presents the International Skin Imaging Collaboration position on standardization of metadata for dermatologic imaging. Metadata is essential to ensure that dermatologic images are properly managed and interpreted. There are two standards-based approaches to recording and storing metadata in dermatologic imaging. The first uses standard consumer image file formats, and the second is the file format and metadata model developed for the Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standard. DICOM would appear to provide an advantage over using consumer image file formats for metadata as it includes all the patient, study, and technical metadata necessary to use images clinically. Whereas, consumer image file formats only include technical metadata and need to be used in conjunction with another actor-for example, an electronic medical record-to supply the patient and study metadata. The use of DICOM may have some ancillary benefits in dermatologic imaging including leveraging DICOM network and workflow services, interoperability of images and metadata, leveraging existing enterprise imaging infrastructure, greater patient safety, and better compliance to legislative requirements for image retention.

Indexed as

DermatologyDermoscopyDiagnostic ImagingHumansInternationalityMetadataRadiology Information SystemsReproducibility of ResultsSkin DiseasesUnited StatesDermatologyDICOMEnterprise imagingMetadataStandards

Identifiers

PMID29344752
PMCPMC6113154
OpenAlexW2791038174

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Registered trials

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