Patent ID: 11931164
Assignee: THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A method for detecting skin disease in a lesion on a subject's skin, comprising:
with a processor, obtaining image data from an image of a lesion on the subject's skin; forming a line segment between the center of the lesion image and the border of the lesion image; rotating the line segment around the center of the lesion with one end of the line segment fixed at the center of the lesion image, obtaining brightness of pixels on the line segment as the line segment rotates around the center of the lesion; evaluating pixel brightness in the image as a function of rotation angle to obtain metrics and/or one or more classifiers defining the rotational symmetry of the lesion; and displaying a likelihood of the presence or absence of skin disease in the subject based on the metrics and/or one or more classifiers.