System and method for the analysis and transmission of data, images and video relating to mammalian skin damage conditions

A method for assessing progress of changes over time to a skin condition that is visible on a mammalian subject, comprising:

• obtaining and processing an electromagnetic image of the skin condition in successive iterations at successive times, to characterize the skin condition according to a set of parameter values at each of the successive times, wherein differences in respective said parameter values at the successive times represent said progress of changes;
• wherein each iteration includes placing at least one visual reference model on the subject in a region of the skin condition, the reference model having known objective visual characteristics;
• collecting at least one image of the region of the skin condition so as to obtain a visual recording representing both the skin condition and the reference model, wherein the at least one image is collected from a perspective angle and distance and at lighting conditions that are at least partly variable from one of the iterations to another;
• normalizing the visual recording representing both the wound and the reference model such that an image of the reference model in the visual recording conforms to the known objective visual characteristics of the reference model, thereby also normalizing an image of the wound in the visual recording;
• comparing the respective parameter values at the successive times using the image of the wound in the visual recording as thereby normalized.