Title
A 3D assessment tool for accurate volume measurement for monitoring the evolution of cutaneous Leishmaniasis wounds
Date Issued
14 December 2012
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Abstract
Clinical assessment and outcome metrics are serious weaknesses identified on the systematic reviews of cutaneous Leishmaniasis wounds. Methods with high accuracy and low-variability are required to standarize study outcomes in clinical trials. This work presents a precise, complete and noncontact 3D assessment tool for monitoring the evolution of cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) wounds based on a 3D laser scanner and computer vision algorithms. A 3D mesh of the wound is obtained by a commercial 3D laser scanner. Then, a semi-automatic segmentation using active contours is performed to separate the ulcer from the healthy skin. Finally, metrics of volume, area, perimeter and depth are obtained from the mesh. Traditional manual 3D and 3D measurements are obtained as a gold standard. Experiments applied to phantoms and real CL wounds suggest that the proposed 3D assessment tool provides higher accuracy (error <2%) and precision rates (error <4%) than conventional manual methods (precision error < 35%). This 3D assessment tool provides high accuracy metrics which deserve more formal prospective study. © 2012 IEEE.
Start page
2025
End page
2028
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas Parasitología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84880963321
PubMed ID
Source
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN of the container
1557170X
ISBN of the container
9781424441198
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