Python script to identify and count hair follicles on a shaved scalp

[kai80]

I am making an app for my partner who is a doctor who does hair transplants. She will use the app to take photos of a patient’s shaved scalp just prior to surgery. The app will upload the image to a webservice and the webservice will count the follicles in the picture and overlay a heatmap to show the areas with the highest densities of follicles so she can harvest the follicles in greater numbers in that area.

I have additional plans beyond this, but the above is a good proof of concept to start with.

A bit about me, I’m an Aussie/Brit living in Brazil. I’m a DevOps so know my way around, technically so will hopefully have realistic expectations about what’s possible!

Anyone interested?

Happy to pay USD 80-100p/h

[crackwitz]

previous discussion for context:

Recognise and count newly implanted hair follicles

Hi, My parter does hair transplants and I thought it would be good to verify how many follicles were actually transplanted at the end of the surgery. I’m new to computer vision so am wondering if someone could point me in the right direction of an approach that could be used to first recognise the follicles in each image, then count them. My thought was to use edge detection to show each follicle as an approximate circle, then count the circles. I can probably manage preparing the image, redu…

[kai80]

Just FYI, this is a different requirement (slightly). I now want to photograph the follicles prior to the surgery. This feature may be added in the future.

[Purva_Masurkar]

Hello I am also working on a similar problem statement what is your progress so far and could you please share your approach