Patent ID: 9691147
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A method comprising: applying a set of temperature stimuli to a portion of skin of a subject including applying pulsed heating or cooling with different durations to the skin, including healthy skin and a lesion, to analyze a differential temperature response of the lesion and the healthy skin; acquiring images of the subject, the images including a plurality of images of the portion of the subject at different times; aligning an image of the portion of the subject such that each pixel of the image corresponds to a same point on the subject over a sequence of images of the portion; processing the sequence of images after aligning the images such that data is extracted from the images; presenting data corresponding to the subject on a display, following the processing of the sequence; and determining status of the portion of the subject including determining a presence of malignant cancer or a probability value indicating a chance of malignancy.