The scientific research and the University faculty
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...technologies and congresses ....
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In 1987
we started to develop a digital system for the computerized aided
diagnosis of melanoma. It was the beginning of a great cooperation
between our group of engineers and dermatologists working in one of the
biggest
hospital in Europe : the "Policlinico di Siena". Our idea was to
permits clinicians to store and retrieve digital high quality images of
pigmented skin lesions. Then we planned to evaluate from each single
image a series of objective values in order to measure each pigmented
lesions. The programs I wrote permitted the automatic evaluation of 36
variables oriented to describe colors, geometries and textures of each
lesion. Subsequently we added also an artificial intelligence
engine based on Neural Networks. In
1989 the DB-Mips System for the aided diagnosis of melanoma was born.
In the same year I obtained the PhD engineering degree and 6 years
later the faculty in medicine. In 1993 we have been invited to
show our instrument to the 3'rd World Conference of Melanoma in
Venice. In 1997 I was invited in Sydney to talk at the 4'th World
Conference on Melanoma and in 2001 I had an important Lecture at
the 5'th World Congress on Melanoma in Venice having the wonderful
title 'understanding digital melanoma' where I reported our innovative
methods and I explained my new theory on the 'islands of colors' called
'burroni's islands' for the early diagnosis of mlanoma. The Burroni's
Islands are nowaday reported on many of the most important scientific
papers. The Islands of colors for the early diagnosis of melanoma
permit our cmputerized instrument to reach the 92% of accuracy in the
differentiantion between moles and melanoma so reporting the highest
levels of accuracy among other similar technologies. When interested
please check the US National Library of Medicine to have a look at
our papers on scientific medical journals : US National Libray of Medicine
Well, since then I am working in my office on the field of melanoma
diagnosis studying new algorithms and methods in order to
simplify the diagnostic process to clinicians while improving the early
diagnosis. I am working with
artificial intelligence applied to the image processing.
"Prof. Marco Burroni , University
of Siena"
Actually
I am a Professor at the University of Siena (Dept. of Dermatology) with
my chair related to "Diagnostic Image processing in dermatology" and I
am working on the telemedicine and instrumental aided diagnosis of
melanoma cooperating with Telecom Italia (Assilt), Legatumori Italiana,
IDI Institute in Rome, private institution in Switzerland (Lugano,
Locarno, Fribourg, Losanna), University of Dresden in Germany,
University of Prague in the Czech Republic, the Sloan Kattering
Hospital in New York and the Government of Gozo (Malta) where we
started a project for the computerized screening of melanoma to the
whole population of the small island (please have a look at the Government press release and the EU Melanoma page for other interesting links)
From 1991 to
2007 we published papers on high impact scientific journals and I attended at 170 Congresses cooperating
with many Universities worldwide. My intent here is to thank the
dermatologists who worked and still work with us during this wonderful
period.
Please find here below my bibliography and curriculum vitae.
Curriculum vitae
Scientific papers
