Device to support dermatological diagnosis

A device (1) to support dermatological diagnosis for a recognition of a skin lesion (L), including to evaluate a nature of a skin lesion (L), said device comprising:

• a vision module (2) including at least one sensor (4) configured to acquire an image of the skin lesion (L) of a patient,
• a spectroscopy module (3) including at least one spectroscope (8) configured to acquire a spectral response of the skin lesion (L) in a determined visible and infrared band,
• at least one housing (I1, I2, I3) including said vision module (2) and said spectroscopy module (3),
• at least one electronic control unit (E) configured for:
• controlling said vision module (2) and said spectroscopy module (3),
• storing a plurality of data acquired by means of said vision and spectroscopy modules (2, 3), including one or more images acquired by means of said vision module (2) and one or more spectral responses acquired by means of said spectroscopy module (3),
• sending said plurality of acquired data to a processing system (SE, SI),
• receiving an objective evaluation result of the skin lesion (L) processed by said processing system (SE, SI), as a result of an integration of the plurality of acquired data performed by said processing system (SE, SI), and
• showing said objective evaluation result on a display screen (22, 23) in such a way that said device (1) is configured to acquire by means of said vision module (2) and said spectroscopy module (3) a plurality of input data about the skin lesion (L) to be analyzed, based on different physical principles, and to provide a visualization of a single output result representative of objective information about characteristics of the skin lesion (L) to be analyzed,
• wherein said at least one housing comprises:
• a first housing (I1) including said vision module (2) therewithin and provided with a gripping portion (12) which is configured to ensure an ergonomic grip by an operator during use of the device (1),
• a second housing (I2) connected to the first housing (I1) and including therein said spectroscopy module (3) and said at least one electronic control unit (E),
• wherein the spectroscopy module (3) comprises an optical connection system (10), to convey light emitted by a light source (9) towards the skin lesion (L) and to convey light reflected by the skin lesion (L) towards the at least one spectroscope (8), the optical connection system (10) comprising two optical fiber branches (101, 102) respectively connected to the at least one spectroscope (8) and to the light source (9), the two optical fiber branches (101, 102) converging into a single optical fiber (103) whose distal end is provided with a gripping portion (104).