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Bayesian Inference Framework to Identify Skin Material Properties in vivo from Active Membranes.

Mark Wilkinson¹, Khushal Goparaju², Laura Nunez-Alvarez³

¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

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This study introduces a novel Bayesian framework using active membranes to accurately measure patient-specific skin mechanical properties noninvasively. The method infers biomechanical parameters without direct force measurements, enhancing dermatological and surgical diagnostics.

Keywords:

Bayesian Inference Inverse Problems Material Characterization Skin Mechanics Surrogate Modeling

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Dermatology
Computational Mechanics

Background:

Accurate in vivo characterization of skin mechanical properties is crucial for dermatology and surgery.
Current noninvasive methods struggle to capture skin's complex nonlinear and anisotropic behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel Bayesian inference framework for patient-specific skin biomechanics assessment.
To overcome limitations of existing techniques in characterizing nonlinear and anisotropic skin properties.

Main Methods:

Utilized active membranes to induce controlled skin deformations for property inference.
Developed a finite element model (FEM) of skin-membrane interaction, parameterized with the Holzapfel-Gasser-Ogden model.
Constructed a data-driven surrogate model using principal component analysis and Gaussian process regression to accelerate Bayesian sampling.

Main Results:

Enabled probabilistic inference of key skin parameters: shear modulus, fiber stiffness, dispersion, and orientation.
Demonstrated accurate parameter recovery even with moderate noise in synthetic studies.
Showed that multi-frame or multi-membrane observations significantly improve parameter identifiability.

Conclusions:

The proposed active membrane platform offers a viable approach for noninvasive in vivo skin biomechanics assessment.
The method successfully infers skin biomechanics without direct force measurements, relying on known membrane properties and strain field measurements.