A system for capturing and analyzing images of body features to identify
treatments has a base unit with a processor and a display and an image
management software component for presenting on the display a user
interface to prompt a user to capture images in preselected locations on
a body and to receive captured image data. The system has at least two
light sources under control of the user interface that provide light
following first and second light paths from the respective light sources
to the plane of an imaging station, each light path having a significant
portion of its light on the plane of the imaging station at a grazing
angle of about ten to about thirty degrees. The first and second light
paths when projected onto the plane of the imaging station intersect at
an angle of at least sixty degrees. An image sensor receives light from
the light sources that is reflected from the surface of a body feature
located at the imaging station and produces pixel image data representing
the body feature. A rating software component receives the pixel image
data from the image sensor and is configured to mimic the judgment of a
dermatologist to provide a rating vector representing the condition of
three or more attributes of the body feature represented by the pixel
image data.