Patent ID: 8330807

Claim:
An automated skin lesion assessment system for automatically assessing a suspect skin lesion comprising: an electronic image library containing diagnosed skin lesion image data representative of images of a plurality of diagnosed skin lesions and, for each diagnosed skin lesion image, a diagnosis of the diagnosed skin lesion; an image capture system configured to capture an image of the suspect skin lesion; a computer processing system configured to compare the image of the suspect skin lesion with images of the diagnosed skin lesions that are represented by the image data and, based on this comparison, to identify multiple diagnosed skin lesions that have images that match the image of the suspect skin lesion and that have different diagnoses; and a user interface configured to report the different diagnoses of the multiple matching diagnosed skin lesions, wherein, when the computer processing system identifies more than three diagnosed skin lesions which match the suspect skin lesion, the user interface is configured to report which of the diagnoses is the most frequent diagnosis among the matches made by the computer processing system.