Generation and analysis of representations of skin conditions

A system effective to generate a representation of a skin condition, the system comprising:

• a memory configured to store image data, the image data including first image data relating to a first image of a skin condition and second image data relating to a second image of the skin condition, the second image being different from the first image;
• and
• a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is effective to receive the image data,
• perform a component analysis of the first image data to generate a first weighted component analysis result for the first image data, wherein the first weighted component analysis result represents the first image data as a weighted sum of components, wherein the components are based on one of skin color, skin contrast, skin tone, and gamma correction related to the skin,
• perform the component analysis of the second image data to generate a second weighted component analysis result for the second image data, wherein the second weighted component analysis result represents the second image data as a weighted sum of the components, wherein the components are based on one of skin color, skin contrast, skin tone, and gamma correction related to the skin;
• perform a sampling analysis to the first weighted component analysis result and the second weighted component analysis result to generate a weighted image representation for the skin condition, wherein the weighted image representation represents the skin condition as a weighted sum of the components;
• and store the weighted image representation in the memory.

A method of analyzing image representations of skin conditions, the method comprising:

• storing, in a memory, image data of a plurality of images of a plurality of skin conditions;
• receiving, at a processor, at least some of the image data of the plurality of images of the plurality of skin conditions;
• performing, by the processor, a component analysis of the at least some of the image data of the plurality of images of the plurality of skin conditions to generate a weighted component analysis result for the at least some of the image data,
• wherein the components are based on one of skin color, skin contrast, skin tone, and gamma correction related to the skin;
• performing, by the processor, a sampling analysis to a plurality of weighted component analysis results of at least some of the plurality of skin conditions to generate a weighted image representation for the at least some of the plurality of skin conditions;
• and
• storing, in the memory, the weighted image representation for the at least some of the plurality of skin conditions;
• wherein each weighted image representation comprises a plurality of weighted image components.