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Study of smartphone suitability for mapping of skin chromophores.
Matiss LacisJanis SpigulisIlona KuzminaAnna BerzinaLauma Valeinesubject
Materials scienceBiomedical EngineeringSkin PigmentationIn vivo testsSkin DiseasesBiomaterialsMelaninOpticsOptical imagingLight sourcemedicineImage Processing Computer-AssistedNevusHumansNevusSkinintegumentary systembusiness.industryPhantoms ImagingOptical Imagingmedicine.diseaseAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsSmartphoneSkin lesionbusinessHemangiomaAlgorithmsBiomedical engineeringdescription
RGB (red-green-blue) technique for mapping skin chromophores by smartphones is proposed and studied. Three smartphones of different manufacturers were tested on skin phantoms and in vivo on benign skin lesions using a specially designed light source for illumination. Hemoglobin and melanin indices obtained by these smartphones showed differences in both tests. In vitro tests showed an increment of hemoglobin and melanin indices with the concentration of chromophores in phantoms. In vivo tests indicated higher hemoglobin index in hemangiomas than in nevi and healthy skin, and nevi showed higher melanin index compared to the healthy skin. Smartphones that allow switching off the automatic camera settings provided useful data, while those with “embedded” automatic settings appear to be useless for distant skin chromophore mapping.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-25 | Journal of biomedical optics |