Aug 26 2008
The Melafind® System
The Melafind® System is a hand held imaging device designed to help physicians identify malignant lesions. The device emits multiple wavelengths of light which help to examine the characteristics of suspicious lesions. The information is collected and then compared to a database within the system. The Melafind® database consists of 6,000 lesions from 4,500 patients, which the company claims is the largest database in the U.S. The “brain” of the MelaFind® system uses sophisticated mathematical algorithms to compare the characteristics of the suspicious lesions with the characteristics of benign and malignant lesions stored in the database. The Melafind® System was developed by Electro-Optical Sciences and is currently being studied by the FDA and is not yet available for commercial use.