HUMAN BODY MEASUREMENT USING THERMOGRAPHIC IMAGES

摘要

A medical data processing method for tracking at least a part of the surface of the body of a patient (P), comprising the steps of:- measuring, at a first point in time, first locations of a plurality of points on the surface of the body by acquiring at least two two-dimensional image datasets, wherein each two-dimensional image dataset represents a two-dimensional image of at least a part of the surface which comprises the plurality of points, and wherein the two-dimensional images are taken from different and known viewing directions, determining the pixels in the two-dimensional image datasets which show said plurality of points on the surface of the body, and calculating the spatial location of the plurality of points from the locations of the determined pixels in the two-dimensional image datasets and the viewing directions of the two-dimensional images;- measuring, at a second point in time which is later than the first point in time, second locations of the plurality of points in the same manner as the first locations; and- calculating a movement of at least the part of the surface of the body from the difference between the first locations and the second locations.