Majority of Blue Nevi Remain Stable Over Time
Source: Dermatology Advisor, March 2023
More than 90% of blue nevi in adult patients are stable in size after a median of 4.5 years, according to study findings published in Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to characterize the evolution of blue nevi and assess the need for monitoring among patients from a tertiary melanoma referral center in Spain. The participants underwent follow-up with periodic digital monitoring from December 1998 to November 2019.
The blue nevi were identified with use of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, and images of the lesions were obtained from the databases of 2 digital epiluminescence microscopy devices. A segmentation neural network was trained to diagnose the lesions from the temporal sequences in the HAM100001 5 segmentation dataset.