title: Digital colposcopy: ready for use? An overview of literature.
abstract: The aims of this review were to summarise the various methods of digital colposcopy and to provide an overview of their efficacy. We conducted a literature search and focused on papers that described a technique for colposcopy, other than conventional colposcopy, and compared this with conventional colposcopy and/or histology and included digitalisation of the process. All papers have been classified in one of the following categories: digital imaging and telecolposcopy, spectroscopy, computerised colposcopy, optical coherence tomography and confocal microcolposcopy. Among the most promising developments is spectroscopy, allowing a more or less automated analysis and interpretation of the colposcopic image.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ja.louwers@vumc.nl
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Louwers
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kocken
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: ter Harmsel
authors.forename: R H M
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Verheijen
mesh_terms: D020681:Colposcopes; D003127:Colposcopy / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence