An optical skin and hair device provided to capture images for enhancing and displaying images. It can be utilized to skin and hair examination to help diagnose skin diseases and dermal lesions. The OptoSkin includes three important parts: an imaging headpiece comprising polarized filters, optical lens and video capturing systems to optical magnify images, the computer software to process and store the images and a display control unit to get information and comments from operators and display online the skin or hair images.
Dermatoscopy has a prominent position for skin examination, especially for pigmented skin lesions. Dermatologists can apply OptoSkin to see the color distribution and structures of lesions in epidermis. OptoSkin comprises a magnifying optical system, a light source illuminating the skin to be examined, an electrical battery or power supply to provide required electrical energy for lights and electronics or capturing system. The OptoSkin is placed on the skin wherein the magnifying optical system helps to better see the skin lesion via cmos image sensors. Using polarized illumination reduces the specular reflection so the operator does not require any refractive index matching oils or liquid that it enhances the image quality, and it also makes the procedure of dermoscopy easier. So, a dermoscope with polarized light can be applied for imaging of epidermis and superficial dermis (increasing the optical depth of skin imaging).
The target underlying the OptoSkin is to design an optical system comprising adjustable cross-polarized illumination and magnifying parts which enables an operator to optimally utilize the dermoscope without great efforts to many regions of interest (ROI) on the skin, simultaneously.
