Development of image processing for digital dermatoscopy

Abstract

Treatment and preservation of skin using a skin care product, recently is become one of the human demand. The cosmetic industry offers a wide variety of skin care products. The most common indirect technique used for investigating human skin's topography is based the silicone-skin replica. The other alternative to measurement of the skin topography using direct technique could be done using digital dermatoscopy and digital image processing techniques. The paper reported current status of our research on image processing for digital dermatoscopy. Using our proposed image processing, the visibility of 3D view of skin topography can be improved. Furthermore, the texture description based on Fourier transform and entropy was promising as an objective value for skin roughness analysis.