Building an image based system to automatically score psoriasis |
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| Abstract | Nowadays the medical tracking of dermatological diseases is
imprecise. The main reason is the lack of suitable objective
methods to evaluate the lesion. The severity of the disease is
scored by doctors just through their visual examination. In
this work, a system to take accurate images of dermatological
lesions has been developed. Mathematical methods can be
applied to these images to obtain values that summarize the
lesion and help to track its evolution. The system is composed
of two elements. A precise image acquisition equipment and a
statistical procedure to extract the lesions from the images. The system is tested on patients with the dermatological disease psoriasis. Temporal series of images are taken for each patient and the lesions are automatically extracted. Results indicate that to the images obtained are a good source for obtaining derived variables to track the lesion. |
| Type | Conference paper [With referee] |
| Year | 2003 Month July |
| ISBN / ISSN | ISSN 0303-9743 ISBN 3-540-40601 |
| Electronic version(s) | [pdf] |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Image Analysis & Computer Graphics |