Digital skin complexion analysis

To evaluate skin condition before planned procedures and evaluate effects of the performed procedure we use system for digital skin analysis IMAGE PRO 3D. Digital skin analysis enables objective and repetitive evaluation of skin condition using numerical values. The device consists of a small cabin that serves to capture the face, which is connected to a computer running special IMAGE PRO 3D software. The photographic cabin ensures proper illumination and face adjustment, reproducible for every patient. It is equipped with chin and forehead supports that allow you to photograph your face in three shots (en face, right and left), in the same orientation and distance from the lens in each patient and in subsequent sessions with the same patient. The device takes pictures using three types of lighting. Normal RGB light - to detect spots on the skin, wrinkles, unevenness and pores. UV light at 365 nm reveals UV spots and porphyrins. PL polarized light is used to extract brown spots and red areas. You can freely choose the type of lighting depending on what kind of skin you want to analyze. The use of IMAGE PRO 3D RBX technology (Red / Brown Surfaces Analysis) provides the ability to detect and analyze the surface of blood vessels (red) and melanin (brown).

This enables IMAGE PRO 3D to distinguish 8 skin changes, such as:

1. RGB Pores corresponds to pores. Skin pores are the openings in our skin through which the sebum and the sweat get to the skin surface. The pores that we are mainly interested in considering the skin care are – more professionally described – are ostia of the sebaceous glands. Skin pores are skins natural element and are always visible.

2. RGB Wrinkle corresponds to wrinkles. Wrinkles are oblong hollows on the skin that appear in certain age.

3. PL Roughness corresponds to red areas (vascular lesions - eczema, inflammatory vascular changes caused by acne or rosacea)

4. PL Spots corresponds to surface spots (brown or red surface changes - freckles, acne scars, hyperpigmentation and vascular changes – with a distinct color, well separated from the environment)

5. PL Sensitivity corresponds to the inequality (lumps and dents), this parameter determines the so-called skin smoothness

6. UV Acne is UV porphyrin (products of Propionibacterium acnes metabolism which are accumulated in pores ostia, visible in UV light)

7. UV Spots are UV spots (melanin deposits located in deeper layers of the skin, caused by UV rays, not visible under normal lighting, visible in UV light)

8. RGB spots brown spots (melanin deposits in the base layer of the epidermis and dye changes in the incontinence of the dye, freckles, lentils, melasma, visible to the unaided eye).  

You can get a comparative report showing all the features of the skin with the so called comparative number (expressed in percentages), telling how many people in the same age with the same type of skin have fewer changes (i.e. better skin condition) There is also a report showing which skin features are significantly different from those of other peoples in the same age and with the same skin type. To ensure the best possible picture quality, reproducibility and reliability, you should prepare yourself before photographing. It is important to carefully wash your make-up with a mild preparation just before taking pictures, because it helps to avoid distortion in assessing of pigmentation and red areas. You also have to remove the hair from the area that you want to analyze. Each single hair or strand of hair on the face will be counted as a wrinkle. To avoid light reflections from clothing that could affect the result of photos, especially made in UV light, wrap the neck and shoulders with a black matte fabric. After performing three face shots within each single shot, we can begin analyzing the skin condition. We mark the area of ​​the face that we want to analyze or accept the area proposed by the System. By creating so called mask (area that we want to evaluate), we must avoid marking of hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, nasopharyngeal grooves, large markings, glossy areas. We choose the ones that interest us and we evaluate by comparing skin condition with other patients of the same sex, in the same age and with the same skin type or by comparing with previously taken pictures of the same patient. We can also simulate the aging process (increase the amount of wrinkles and spots) or rejuvenate the skin by removing discoloration areas and wrinkles. We get the results in the form of pictures, figures and graphs.