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Andreas Weinbacher1, Philipp Tschandl2, Harald Kittler2
1Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Medical terms of anatomical regions are not sufficient to unequivocally describe the locations of lesions on the skin. In order to get gender, age, height and weight independent localisations on the human skin we propose to use the base mesh of MakeHuman in combination with UV coordinates. As proof-of-concept we present a web application based on Three.js with three different MakeHuman 3D models (male, female, infant). Anatomical regions corresponding to UV coordinates are displayed and the UV coordinates of skin lesions can be marked. Marked regions are "transformed" to changed 3D models automatically allowing for tracking in spite of anatomic changes.
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