Lumo Imaging

LumoScannner for Clinicians

LumoScanner for Clinicians

LumoScanner for Clinicians system consists of the following components:

LumoScanner:

World’s first 30-micron resolution capable Total Body Photography (TBP) scanner 

LumoCrunch:

Is an image processing pipeline that, amongst other functions, Segments/delineates every lesion on the subject’s body and extracts correct sizes and other feature values for every lesion before storing all the information as DICOM files in a provider-administered/owned cloud or in a provider’s server

LumoDoc:

World’s first TBP DICOM viewer for examination of local as well as remote patient’s scans.

Every TBP System to Date

LumoScanner

Time-consuming

A dermatologist has to capture dermoscopic images of all the lesions of interest after the TBP and to compare the old images with the present state of the lesions. This is a time-consuming and expensive process.

Efficient

LumoScanner is fully automatic and does not take any dermatologist time for  capturing images with dermoscopic resolution. It currently takes 15 minutes for the 4 pre-scans and 4 scans of an ultra-high resolution total body imaging session.

Expensive and often not reimbursed

A dermatologist has to document all the lesions of interest after the TBP session and compare the old images with the present state of the lesions.  As a result, these procedures are much more costly than the reimbursement amount.

Excellent return on Investment

Because the LumoScanner does not require any dermatologist time, it can generate excellent returns. It can pay for itself in just over 6 months.

TBP systems are costly to purchase/operate and bulky

The 3D TBP systems are very expensive, require dedicated space, and can not be justified based on their utility

Affordable and compact

A LumoScanner can be purchased for less than $20 per scan for high turnover practices (no more than $40 per scan for low turn-over practices).  LumoScanner has Zero footprint, it essentially looks like a thick 75” TV on the wall of the examination room.

May miss data

One study that followed high-risk patients with TBP and SDDI found that 40% of new melanoma cases had not been previously imaged with dermoscopic imaging.

Low probability of missing data

LumoScanner captures images with dermoscopic-like acuity (i.e., better than 40-micron resolution and cross-polarized) for better than 85% of the skin surface. Better than 95% of the patient’s skin surface is documented. Therefore, almost every lesion will be automatically captured and available for future SDDI analysis.

LumoScanner

Efficient

LumoScanner is fully automatic and does not take any dermatologist time for  capturing images with dermoscopic resolution. It currently takes 15 minutes for the 4 pre-scans and 4 scans of an ultra-high resolution total body imaging session.

Excellent return on Investment

Because the LumoScanner does not require any dermatologist time, it can generate excellent returns. It can pay for itself in just over 6 months.

Affordable and compact

A LumoScanner can be purchased for less than $20 per scan for high turnover practices (no more than $40 per scan for low turn-over practices).  LumoScanner has Zero footprint, it essentially looks like a thick 75” TV on the wall of the examination room.

Low probability of missing data

LumoScanner captures images with dermoscopic-like acuity (i.e., better than 40-micron resolution and cross-polarized) for better than 85% of the skin surface. Better than 95% of the patient’s skin surface is documented. Therefore, almost every lesion will be automatically captured and available for future SDDI analysis.

Dermoscopic image acuity is crucial to temporal analysis because dermoscopic imaging

Reveals Crucial Structures

Dermoscopic images magnify and reveal pigment network, globules, streaks, and regression structures in the epidermis and papillary dermis. These micro-features are readily available in clinical imaging

Reduces Image Noise

Dermoscopy uses polarized light to eliminate surface reflections (glare), which are major artifacts in clinical photos.

Standardizes Data

Dermoscopic images are often more standardized in terms of focus, magnification, and lighting

Dermoscopic image acuity is crucial to temporal analysis because dermoscopic imaging

LumoCrunch Image Processing Pipeline

LumoCrunch cloud software uses the images from the scanner as input, processes them and provides DICOM-compatible output for future analysis and/or visualization.

LumoCrunch:
  • Renders the large number 2D images from the scanner as one 3D rendering.
  • Extracts the raw lesion information that is useful for clinicians (e.g. crops, locations, and sizes of pigmented skin lesions)
  • Creates a TBP DICOM file that contains the 2D images, 3D rendering and lesion data.
Incidentally, Lumo Imaging has developed and published a proposal for TBP DICOM and is currently serving as a voting member of the working group that is tasked with the development of the TBP DICOM standard. Please note that the crops from 2D images are orthorectified before storage in DICOM files. Orthorectification is unique to Lumo, while the rest of the processing steps performed as part of the LumoCrunch pipeline are quite standard, can be readily found in literature, and have been used by other vendors of TBP Systems (e.g., Fotofinder and Vectra 360).
Orthorectification is a well-known and standard step for processing satellite imaging information (akin to our senses seeing an oval-shaped tabletop and our brain interpreting the information as a circular tabletop). The resulting processed data will be stored as DICOM files in the provider’s cloud space or local secure storage, depending on the clinic’s preference.

LumoDoc scan visualization software

LumoDoc is a full-featured local computer or cloud-based (Zero footprint) TBP DICOM viewer. Closely working with the DICOM committee for TBP, LumoDoc supports every feature of the TBP DICOM format, including 2D TBP images, 3D TBP rendering, crops of lesions from the 2D images, as well as annotated lesions in DICOM Structured Report.
LumoDoc allows the clinicians to examine and annotate TBP scans from anywhere.
Additionally, LumoDoc can side-by-side visualize the information from two TBP DICOM files (presumably from two different points of time but from the same individual).
For example, the clinician can side-by-side compare two 3D renderings, two 2D images, or 2 lesion crops in order to view the subtle changes in the lesions over time.
LumoDoc includes the following features: 
  • A Virtual Dermatoscope that can provide highly magnified images of the lesions.
  • A Machine learning option that allows the clinician to opt for CycleGAN style transfer technology in order to render the magnified images in dermatoscopic style (as opposed to clinical style).
  • Suspicious lesions classification and Ugly Duckling analysis that are identified by LumoTrack are presented as heatmaps to attract the attention of the Dermatologist to concerning lesions.

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