31 December 2019 Photometric computer vision-aided system for psoriasis severity scoring: a preclinical study based on a mouse model of psoriasis
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Abstract

Psoriasis is an inflammatory cutaneous disease of unknown origin, characterized by the appearance of red, itchy, and scaly plaques of abnormal skin. One of the most important issues that guides treatment of psoriasis is to evaluate the degree of the illness determining the psoriasis and area severity index (PASI). Dermatologists usually use visual and tactile senses to assess lesion severity, involving a subjective judgment depending on the medical practitioner. For this purpose, we propose an image processing system based on photometric stereo acquisition technique and adapted analysis criteria to evaluate skin parameters. This diagnosis aided system gives an objective and accurate evaluation of skin erythema (redness), skin thickness, and scaling, which are the three clinical parameters, with the area of lesioned skin, that determine PASI score. Thus, we estimate the intensity of erythema from the albedo map and thickness from the three-dimensional estimation of the skin surface. Finally, the combination of color and geometry results allows identifying and quantifying the skin scaling. A validation protocol with an image database that covers all parameter variation ranges is proposed, and the results show a high correlation with dermatologist scores.

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Taoufik El Kabir, Benjamin Bringier, Majdi Khoudeir, Franck Morel, Jean-Claude Lecron, and Jean-François Jégou "Photometric computer vision-aided system for psoriasis severity scoring: a preclinical study based on a mouse model of psoriasis," Journal of Electronic Imaging 29(4), 041003 (31 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.29.4.041003
Received: 30 August 2019; Accepted: 11 December 2019; Published: 31 December 2019
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KEYWORDS
Skin

Computing systems

Image segmentation

Light sources and illumination

Picosecond phenomena

Image acquisition

Image processing

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