Telemedicine is a growing field for the application of the new technologies and deals mainly with the remote process of remote diagnosis, performed through proper media.
In our context, diagnostic support comes from the patients' information, the series of images of their lesions, plus global-view pictures taken in order to document the general situation. The diagnostic process is based on many factors involving questions to the patient, touching of some lesions, looking at detailed views of a particular site as well as of the image of the lesion. Much of this important information is not available on the remote consultation site. For this reason, we stress the fact that the image quality is more important than in the normal examination context. In many of our studies, we demonstrated the possibility for clinicians to perform an accurate remote diagnosis without significant differences if compared with local check up. The Mips Software, infact, performs the automatic parameters evaluation and sends them together with the image through a simple visual interface. The eventual image compression, obviously having a fixed standardized quality, does not permit user settings.

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