Hyperspectral Imaging for Clinical Diagnosis

Melanoma are responsible for most deaths which occur due to skin cancer. However, if melanoma are diagnosed and treated in the early stages, the outlook is good with a high chance of being cured. This case study describes the development of a system using a grism based hyperspectral spectrometer with an EMCCD camera to capture hyperspectral data from skin lesions, which upon analysis allowed them to distinguish between malignant melanoma and other skin lesions in a numerical and objective way.