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The deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, is frequently confused with its benign version, melanocytic nevus. Diagnosis is based on visual assessment, requiring commonly tumour excision for confirmation. Infrared thermal (IRT) imaging has shown its potential to assist diagnosis innocuously, but richer tissue characterization might be sustained with additional methods, as ultraviolet (UV) imaging. In this study, IRT and UV imaging were combined to assess 31 melanocytic lesions. Relevant differences were found for IRT parameters (up to 3◦C) being UV features also meaningful for lesion characterization (p-value≤0.05). Future application of findings would supply complementary information, assisting in harmless premature detection |
