Traditional manual mole mapping represents one of the most time-intensive aspects of dermatological practice. Clinicians must manually compare side-by-side images from different time points while attempting to mentally track which lesion corresponds to which across visits.
This process may consume 30 minutes per patient for comprehensive mapping, yet still risks missing subtle but clinically significant changes. This inefficiency is more serious of an issue for a high-risk patient who has thousands of moles on the body.