Quality assurance in medical facial images with respect to ambient illumination

A user-operated hand-held medical body-imaging device, comprising:

• a primary camera, configured for capturing imaging data of at least a part of a face of a user and for providing pre-capturing image information as experienced in a first direction;
• said imaging data comprising at least one of an image and a video stream;
• said pre-capturing image information comprising ambient illumination level as experienced in said first direction;
• user-interaction means, configured for providing information to said user;
• data communication means, configured for external data communication;
• processing means, connected to said primary camera, said user-communication means and said data communication means;
• said processing means being configured for receiving said pre-capturing image information from said primary camera, for evaluating if acceptable conditions for capturing medically analyzable image data are present based on said pre-capturing image information, and for communicating operation instructions to said user in response to said evaluation, using said user-communication means;
• and
• said processing means being further configured for recording said imaging data from said primary camera and for transmitting data representing said imaging data using said data communication means.