A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A TREATMENT AREA OF A PATIENT

Abstract: when treating a patient suffering from peripheral neuropathic pain by cutaneous administration of, for example, capsaicin, monitoring involves marking the treatment area on a skin of the patient and/or on a substrate which is separate from the skin of the patient, acquiring pictures of the treatment area and a reference symbol, detecting closed contour areas and the reference symbol, determining a closed contour area size, grouping the closed contour areas according to their shape, determining a characteristic area size for each group of contour areas, and selecting a group of closed contour areas, and storing the shape and the characteristic area size of the selected group in a database.

Inventor(s): Jean-Manassé THEAGÈNE, Ahmed TAHA AROUA

CPC Classification: A61B5/107 (Measuring physical dimensions, e.g. size of the entire body or parts thereof)

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