Teledermatology for Skin NTDs in West Africa

This study used photographs that were collected prospectively in the West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, through our ongoing studies with use of digital health tools for clinical data documentation and for teledermatology. The description of the design of this study can be found elsewhere (10 (link)). Briefly, photographs of skin lesions were collected with clinical information including demographics and disease description to support dermatologists in providing diagnoses remotely. The photographs were taken using the camera on Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus smart tablets under field conditions and in rural clinics from a total of six health districts (four in Côte d’Ivoire and two in Ghana) known to be endemic with one or more skin NTDs. Image resolution was 1920 x 2560 pixels stored in JPEG format. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients for use of their images. The study has ethical approvals from the institutional review board of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (2020-2054-SPHTM) (USA), the Ministry of Health of Côte d’Ivoire (No. IRB000111917), and the Ministry of Health of Ghana (GHS-ERC:014/05/21).

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Yotsu R., Ding Z., Hamm J, & Blanton R. (2023). Deep learning for AI-based diagnosis of skin-related neglected tropical diseases: a pilot study. medRxiv.

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Tab M10 FHD Plus

Dermatologists Diagnoses Institutional review board Ntds Patients Skin West african

Corresponding Organization : Tulane University

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independent variables

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dependent variables

Diagnoses provided remotely by dermatologists based on the collected skin lesion photographs

control variables

Health districts known to be endemic with one or more skin NTDs
Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus smart tablets used to take photographs under field conditions and in rural clinics
Image resolution of 1920 x 2560 pixels stored in JPEG format

controls

Positive control: None mentioned
Negative control: None mentioned

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