{"id":4407,"date":"2026-04-21T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oferreiter.com\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:57","slug":"pigment-network-analysis-in-melanoma-and-nevi-retrospective-study-from-snippets-to-full-dermoscopic-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oferreiter.com\/en\/pigment-network-analysis-in-melanoma-and-nevi-retrospective-study-from-snippets-to-full-dermoscopic-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigment Network Analysis in Melanoma and Nevi: Retrospective Study from Snippets to Full Dermoscopic Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"heading\" class=\"heading\">\n<div id=\"full-view-heading\" class=\"full-view\">\n<div id=\"libkey-nomad-journal-cover-41236239\" class=\"nomad-container\">\n<div class=\"JournalCover\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/browzine.com\/libraries\/2584\/journals\/32030\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Reiter+O&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Ofer Reiter\">Ofer Reiter<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span 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Hospital Zurich, Gloriastrasse, Zurich, Switzerland.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-8\">8<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Rabinovitz+HS&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Harold S Rabinovitz\">Harold S Rabinovitz<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Department of Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-9\">9<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Carvalho+G&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" 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Camargo Cancer Center, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-10\">10<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Kazi+R&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Rashek Kazi\">Rashek Kazi<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Zeidan+RB&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Rozina B Zeidan\">Rozina B Zeidan<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Bajaj+S&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Shirin Bajaj\">Shirin Bajaj<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Kurtansky+NR&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Nicholas R Kurtansky\">Nicholas R Kurtansky<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?sort=date&amp;term=Marghoob+AA&amp;cauthor_id=41236239\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Ashfaq A Marghoob\">Ashfaq A Marghoob<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41236239\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"short-article-details\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"abstract\" class=\"abstract\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"eng-abstract\" class=\"abstract-content selected\">\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Atypical network is a dermoscopic criterion that helps in the diagnosis of melanoma. Despite its importance, the interpretation of atypical networks varies widely among experts.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>This study examined the impact of viewing the whole lesion versus viewing foci of pigment network (i.e., snippets) in isolation from within the lesion on expert classification of pigment network in dermoscopic images.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Method:\u00a0<\/strong>Six dermoscopy experts, blinded to the diagnosis, each evaluated a total of 92 images (80 nevi and 12 melanomas) for the presence of typical versus atypical pigment network. While 57% of images had consistent classification of the network between whole lesion and snippets, 43% shifted the network classification between the snippet to the whole lesion view. Melanomas were more prone than nevi to intra-rater discrepancy between whole lesion and snippets (54.2% vs. 41.7%; odds ratio (OR): 1.65; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.11-2.47). The inter-observer agreement was higher for the snippet view (65.22%) than for the whole lesion view (55%).<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Results:\u00a0<\/strong>These findings suggest that both the objective morphology of the pigment network and the subjective interpretation of the network in context with other features within the lesion influence expert classification of pigment network.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Conclusion:\u00a0<\/strong>Factors such as the variability in the distribution, thickness, and color of network lines, overall pattern, and other dermoscopic structures likely contributed to the classification changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noa Kremer\u00a01\u00a02,\u00a0Isabella N Dana\u00a01\u00a03,\u00a0Emmanouil Chousakos\u00a04,\u00a0Larissa M Pastore\u00a05,\u00a0Allan C Halpern\u00a01,\u00a0Stephen W Dusza\u00a01,\u00a0Jochen Weber\u00a01,\u00a0Ofer Reiter\u00a01\u00a02,\u00a0Aimilios Lallas\u00a06,\u00a0Cristian Navarrete-Dechent\u00a01\u00a07,\u00a0Ralph Braun\u00a08,\u00a0Harold S Rabinovitz\u00a09,\u00a0Gustavo Carvalho\u00a010,\u00a0Rashek Kazi\u00a01,\u00a0Rozina B Zeidan\u00a01,\u00a0Shirin Bajaj\u00a01,\u00a0Nicholas R Kurtansky\u00a01,\u00a0Ashfaq A Marghoob\u00a01 Introduction:\u00a0Atypical network is a dermoscopic criterion that helps in the diagnosis of melanoma. Despite its importance, the interpretation of atypical networks varies widely among experts. Objective:\u00a0This study examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pigment Network Analysis in Melanoma and Nevi: Retrospective Study from Snippets to Full Dermoscopic Images - \u05d3&quot;\u05e8 \u05e2\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8 \u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d8\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d2\u05e8<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oferreiter.com\/en\/pigment-network-analysis-in-melanoma-and-nevi-retrospective-study-from-snippets-to-full-dermoscopic-images\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pigment Network Analysis in Melanoma and Nevi: Retrospective Study from Snippets to Full Dermoscopic Images - \u05d3&quot;\u05e8 \u05e2\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8 \u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d8\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d2\u05e8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Noa Kremer\u00a01\u00a02,\u00a0Isabella N Dana\u00a01\u00a03,\u00a0Emmanouil Chousakos\u00a04,\u00a0Larissa M Pastore\u00a05,\u00a0Allan C Halpern\u00a01,\u00a0Stephen W Dusza\u00a01,\u00a0Jochen Weber\u00a01,\u00a0Ofer Reiter\u00a01\u00a02,\u00a0Aimilios Lallas\u00a06,\u00a0Cristian Navarrete-Dechent\u00a01\u00a07,\u00a0Ralph Braun\u00a08,\u00a0Harold S Rabinovitz\u00a09,\u00a0Gustavo Carvalho\u00a010,\u00a0Rashek Kazi\u00a01,\u00a0Rozina B Zeidan\u00a01,\u00a0Shirin Bajaj\u00a01,\u00a0Nicholas R Kurtansky\u00a01,\u00a0Ashfaq A Marghoob\u00a01 Introduction:\u00a0Atypical network is a dermoscopic criterion that helps in the diagnosis of melanoma. 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