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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
An innovative system for 3D clinical photography in the resource-limited settings
Journal of Translational Medicine, Volume 12, No. 1, Article 169, Year 2014
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Background: Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most frequently occurring cancer in Mozambique among men and the second most frequently occurring cancer among women. Effective therapeutic treatments for KS are poorly understood in this area. There is an unmet need to develop a simple but accurate tool for improved monitoring and diagnosis in a resource-limited setting. Standardized clinical photographs have been considered to be an essential part of the evaluation.Methods: When a therapeutic response is achieved, nodular KS often exhibits a reduction of the thickness without a change in the base area of the lesion. To evaluate the vertical space along with other characters of a KS lesion, we have created an innovative imaging system with a consumer light-field camera attached to a miniature " photography studio" adaptor. The image file can be further processed by computational methods for quantification.Results: With this novel imaging system, each high-quality 3D image was consistently obtained with a single camera shot at bedside by minimally trained personnel. After computational processing, all-focused photos and measurable 3D parameters were obtained. More than 80 KS image sets were processed in a semi-automated fashion.Conclusions: In this proof-of-concept study, the feasibility to use a simple, low-cost and user-friendly system has been established for future clinical study to monitor KS therapeutic response. This 3D imaging system can be also applied to obtain standardized clinical photographs for other diseases. © 2014 Baghdadchi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Baghdadchi, Saharnaz
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Liu, Kimberly
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Knapp, Jacquelyn
United States, Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College
Prager, Gabriel
United States, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Graves, Susannah K.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Akrami, Kevan M.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Manuel, Rolanda Carmen Rafael
Mozambique, Maputo
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Bastos, Rui
Mozambique, Maputo
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Reid, Erin Gourley
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Carson, Dennis
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Esener, Sadik C.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Carson, Joseph
United States, Charleston
College of Charleston
Liu, Yu Tsueng
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Statistics
Citations: 13
Authors: 13
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1479-5876-12-169
e-ISSN:
14795876
Research Areas
Cancer
Study Locations
Mozambique
Participants Gender
Male
Female