Conclusion

The primary aim of the BurnCase 3D project is to significantly improve the quality of body surface estimation in burn care. The use of BurnCase 3D could have a true impact on the quality of treatment in burns. Consequently, an improvement of the outcome of burn patients can be achieved. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to deploy the system on a broad basis of burn units all over the world and to collect the experiences of these.

It is clearly stated by the development team, that a lot of work has to be done in order to scientifically prove the correctness and accuracy of the surface estimation results. Especially in infant and obese patients the model library still has some limitations. Further investigations on the body surface areas and body shapes of these patient groups have to be performed. Consequently, it will be necessary to further improve the accuracy by an extension of the 3D model adaptation method in a way that certain body regions can be inor deflated separately according to the patient’s physiological state. Several burn units are evaluating the system and their feedback influences the on-going development. A free basic version of BurnCase 3D and more information can be obtained from www.burncase. at.

Financing and accomplishment

The research project BurnCase 3D is publicly funded and carried out at the RISC Software GmbH, Research Unit for Medical-Informatics, a Research & Development company of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. All earnings are reinvested future developments. This project and the application of the BurnCase 3D software system are supported by grants of the Upper Austrian Local Government, the Upper Austrian Health-Fund and all participating medical partners.

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