Burn Injury Assessment Tool with Morphable 3D Human Body Models

Burn patient outcomes depend on wound surface area as a percent of the total body surface area (%TBSA), burn locations/depth and age. %TBSA is essential in determining fluid resuscitation and planning for surgical intervention and rehabilitation. The goal of this project is to develop a burn injury assessment tool with morphable 3D anthropometric human body models to improve the accuracy of TBSA and burn areas, and therefore treatment recommendations. Phase I produced a functional prototype that can create anthropometrically morphable body models in real-time for interactive demarcation of burn areas based on burn severity (with photographic assistance) and compute %TBSA. For Phase II, the capabilities of the prototype will be expanded to develop a comprehensive tool. New functionalities will include a database to retrieve stored patient and burn information, addition of child model, full body model articulations for independent body parts scaling, and a specialized interface for the hands given their high burn incidences. To further aid in image-assisted burn demarcation, a photograph acquisition guide for direct alignment with the 3D model on the mobile version of our tool will be developed along with infrared thermal image processing to estimate burn depth. Validation will also be performed on burn patients.