Patent ID: 8644615

Claim:
A system comprising: (a) a feature-detection circuit configured to extract at least one respective human-perceivable feature included in each medical image of a plurality of medical images of the skin of an individual human (hereafter “medical skin images”), the each medical image of plurality of medical skin images includes a respective portion of a region of interest of a surface of the skin of the individual human, and was acquired by a handheld digital image acquisition device; (b) a feature-matching circuit configured to determine a substantial correspondence between (x) an extracted human-perceivable feature included in a border region segment of a selected medical skin image of the plurality of medical skin images and (y) an extracted at least one respective human-perceivable feature included in the each medical skin image of the plurality of medical skin images other than the selected medical skin image; (c) a data collection circuit configured to gather the determined substantial correspondences for the extracted human-perceivable feature included in the border region segment of the selected medical skin image; (d) an overlap-analysis circuit configured to generate data indicative of a border region-overlap status of the selected medical skin image, the data generated at least partially in response to the determined substantial correspondences; (e) a list management circuit configured to add the data indicative of the determined border region-overlap status for the border region segment of the selected medical skin image to an omitted-coverage list; (f) an iteration control circuit configured to iteratively designate a next medical skin image from the plurality of medical skin images as the selected medical skin image until each medical skin image of the plurality of medical skin images has been designated, and initiate a processing of each of the iteratively designated next medical skin images by the feature-matching circuit, the data collection circuit, the overlap-analysis circuit, and the list management circuit; (g) a coverage-analysis circuit configured to identify a particular portion of the skin surface as likely not included in the plurality of medical skin images (hereafter “possible non-imaged portion of the region of interest”), the identifying the possible non-imaged portion of the region of interest at least partially based on the omitted-coverage list; and (h) a reporting circuit configured to output user-assistance information at least partially based on the identified possible non-imaged portion of the skin.