Image-Matching System Highlights Changes in Skin Lesions

A video imaging and image-data-processing system for use in dermatological examinations acquires and processes images of patients' skins. The system processes a current image of a selected area of a patient's skin along with an image of the same area acquired previously, generating a comparison image that highlights any nevi (moles) that have appeared, disappeared, grown, and/or shrunk in the interim.