A Lightweight Approach to 3D Measurement of Chronic Wounds

This paper presents a light-weight process for 3D reconstruction and measurement of chronic wounds using a commonly available smartphone as an image capturing device. The first stage of our measurement pipeline comprises the creation of a dense 3D point cloud using structure-from-motion (SfM). Furthermore, the wound area is segmented from the surrounding skin using dynamic thresholding in CIELAB color space and a surface is estimated to simulate the missing skin in the wound area. Together with a mesh reconstruction of the wound, the skin surface and the segmented wound is used to calculate the wound dimensions, i.e., its length, surface area and volume. We evaluate the presented pipeline using three wound phantoms, representing different stages in healing, and compare the subsequently scanned and measured wound dimensions with manually measured ones.

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