An Objective Tissue-typing Imaging & Data Analytics System for Precision and Consistency in Measuring Skin and Wound Healing

Background: Measurement of wound area reduction is a common method of demonstrating that a wound or a target skin area is healing. However, experts now also believe that understanding and tracking skin tissue changes during the healing process is equally important for determining whether a wound/target skin target area is healing correctly. Currently, health care professionals perform visual inspections and make imprecise measurement projections of wound bed and skin tissue changes to track healing progress, which lack precision and consistency.

Purpose: This poster describes an electronic system that uses images and mathematical algorithms to consistently measure and record 3D changes in skin tissue over time, including even small, slow changes that are difficult to detect with the human eye during manual inspections.