Since 2023, the LFSR, in partnership with the GIFLE research group (Grupo de Investigación en Fotogrametría y Láser Escáner) at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), has been working on the use and evaluation of the photogrammetric solution PhotoMeDAS, patented by the UPV. This solution generates three-dimensional models of patients' skulls through the photogrammetric processing of cellphone images.
Currently, there is a project involving IOC/Fiocruz (Laboratory of Epidemiology of Congenital Malformations) and Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto (UERJ) to collect three-dimensional cranial models of children in the pediatric outpatient clinic. This project has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the three institutions and will allow for the validation of PhotoMeDAS as a non-invasive method for determining cranial asymmetries in the early years of life.
Moreover, in cooperative development with GIFLE/UPV and LEMC/IOC/Fiocruz, the laboratory is taking the first steps in developing a photogrammetric solution—also using cellphone images—to reconstruct a patient's face in three dimensions and evaluate facial asymmetries alongside cranial ones. It is expected that, in the coming years, there will be strong synergy between these institutions in the development of solutions that democratize medical imaging exams.