Method and system for analyzing skin conditions using digital images
AssigneeBrighTex Bio-Photonics LLC
InventorsRajeshwar Chhibber, Ashutosh Chhibber, Shefali Sharma, Shivanjli Sharma
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for analyzing skin conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet (UV) image of a portion of a body surface, such as a person's face, each of the white-light and UV images including a plurality of pixels and each pixel in the UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the white-light image. The method further comprises identifying skin-pixels in the white-light and UV images, and obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images.
Claims40
A method for analyzing skin conditions associated with a subject, comprising:
- acquiring a first white-light image and a first UV image of the subject, each of the first white-light and UV images include a plurality of pixels, each pixel in the first UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the first white-light image;
- examining properties of each pixel in at least the first white-light image to identify skin-pixels in the first white-light and UV images;
- and
- obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in at least one of the first white-light and UV images.
A computer readable medium storing therein program instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method for analyzing skin conditions associated with a subject, the program instructions comprising:
- instructions for acquiring a first white-light image and a first UV image of the subject, each pixel in the first UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the first white-light image;
- instructions for identifying, on a pixel by pixel basis, skin-pixels in the first white-light and UV images;
- and
- instructions for obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images.
A system for analyzing skin conditions associated with a subject, comprising:
- an image acquisition device configured to acquire a first white-light image and a first UV image of the subject, each of the first white-light and UV images having a plurality of pixels, each pixel in the first UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the first white-light image;
- a computer system configured to identify, on a pixel by pixel basis, skin-pixels in the first white-light and UV images, and to obtain results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.