Automated assessment of skin lesions using image library

Abstract

An automated skin lesion assessment system may automatically assess a suspect skin lesion. An electronic image library may contain diagnosed skin lesion image data representative of images of a plurality of diagnosed skin lesions and, for each, a diagnosis of the skin lesion. An image capture system may capture an image of the suspect skin lesion. A computer processing system may compare the image of the suspect skin lesion with the diagnosed skin lesion image data and, based on this comparison, identify one or more diagnosed skin lesions which match the suspect skin lesion. A user interface may report the diagnoses of the diagnosed skin lesions that match the image of the suspect skin lesion.

1 . A method of making a library of skin lesions comprising:
 capturing an electronic image of each skin lesion using a camera, while illuminating each image with the same intensity and color of illumination;   rendering a diagnosis of each skin lesion; and   storing the captured electronic image of each skin lesion and the diagnosis of each skin lesion in an electronic image library.   
     
     
         2 . The method of making a library of skin lesions of  claim 1  wherein the capturing the electronic image of each skin lesion is also with the same camera zoom setting and distance from the camera.