Segmentation automatique d'image pour le suivi des cicatrices suite à une chirurgie de la scoliose

The goal of this project is to propose to the plastic surgeons a data-processing methodology that analyzes images, making it possible to easily measure some of the criteria used: dimensional and chromatic criteria. Such a tool also makes it possible to proceed to the constitution of data banks on scars and their evolutions. Such quantitative studies would allow to compare methods and clinical tools brought into play in the plastic surgery. For example, it would become possible to compare the various manners of closing a scar, the various types of closing wire etc. These stakes have direct repercussions at the industrial level. The problem of the study of the scars in image processing is new, and remains as still an open research field.

This methodology is based on the INSPECK acquisition system—INSPECK Inc, Montreal—which is a active vision system composed of optical digitizers. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)