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Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2016
Applicant:

Michelson Diagnostics Limited, Maidstone, Kent, GB;

Inventors:

Jonathan Denis Holmes, West Maling, GB;

Richard Whitehead, Lingfield, GB;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/441 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30104 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of processing optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans through a subject's skin, the method comprising: receiving at least one OCT scan through the subject's skin, each scan representing an OCT signal in a slice through the subject's skin; processing each OCT scan so as to determine a set of parameters comprising at least a measure of the atrophy of the vascular structure in the epidermis; in which the processing produces a measurement of skin condition dependent upon each of the set of parameters, and the method comprises outputting the measurement of skin condition.


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