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  • Dermatology
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  • Traditional skin condition evaluation requires expensive equipment and continuous care.
  • Mobile cameras offer a accessible alternative for capturing skin images.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a simple algorithm for extracting skin features using mobile camera images.
  • To enable easy and accessible skin condition evaluation.

Main Methods:

  • Skin features like wrinkle length and cell area were analyzed.
  • A new skin binary image was obtained and Watershed segmentation was applied.
  • Algorithm accuracy was improved by comparing results with ground truth using similarity metrics.

Main Results:

  • Skin surface features were extracted from mobile camera images.
  • The algorithm demonstrated superiority through similarity analysis with ground truth.
  • Changes in skin features correlated with age were verified.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method enables quantitative skin surface evaluation against ground truth.
  • A mobile camera-based system for diagnosing and managing individual skin conditions is proposed.
  • This approach facilitates real-life, personalized skin health management.