The development of a skin inspection imaging system on an Android device

Abstract

The skin inspection result provides helpful skin health information for further skin analysis. In tradition, the skin status examination is performed by a skin probe, which is operated by a trained professional, contact the skin to obtain the necessary information. The skin probes are expensive, the examination costs much time and money, and the reused probes also cause a health problem. In this paper, a skin inspection imaging system is developed on an Android device. A series of skin images is acquired by a conventional digital camera connecting to the Android device, and then pre-processes these images to extract the image features to classify the skin conditions. The proposed system is portable and it provides a cheaper solution to detect the skin status.