What is VISIA?
VISIA is a skin diagnostic device that finely analyzes the condition of the skin, such as spots, wrinkles, and pores, item by item using the latest cameras and analysis technology. It can also analyze skin age.
It captures images of the face in color and UV light to analyze the condition of the skin. It can analyze spots, wrinkles, and even estimate skin age from images, which are not visible to the naked eye.
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It features wide-ranging illumination and a 3D position matching function.
Therefore, it prevents errors in image analysis caused by changes in color tone due to shading and misalignment during photography, allowing for accurate skin analysis.
Additionally, VISIA uniquely combines the functions of color photography and UV photography. It analyzes spots, wrinkles, pores, and skin tone irregularities through color photography.
Through UV photography, it analyzes hidden spots and acne bacteria, providing an accurate diagnosis of skin condition.
Furthermore, VISIA accumulates extensive data from skin diagnostics.
By comparing your own analysis results, it is possible to diagnose skin age. Using VISIA to diagnose your skin allows for more appropriate skin improvement treatments.
In particular, at MY Beauty Clinic, for patients who visit us regularly as part of their treatment courses, we conduct thorough VISIA imaging sessions at the initial, midpoint, and final stages.
While objectively confirming the condition of our patients’ skin together during continued visits, we propose optimal treatment methods.
Features of VISIA
VISIA has the following three features:
• Allows comparison of skin quality with others in the same age group
• Provides insights into the condition of eyelashes as well as skin
• Delivers precise analysis results for skin diagnostics
VISIA has accumulated a large amount of data from skin diagnostics. There are over 100,000 pieces of accumulated data, including more than 11,000 from Japanese individuals.
By comparing your diagnosis results with the average of your age group, you can objectively assess your skin quality.
In addition to skin analysis, VISIA can simultaneously measure the length and volume of eyelashes.
By determining the baseline line from images with closed eyes, VISIA measures and evaluates the average length and volume of eyelashes on a 5-point scale. This allows for numerical assessment of the effects of mascara for volume enhancement or lash lengthening products like Latisse.
It can also measure the efficacy of eyelash growth treatments using products like Latisse or GrandeLASH.
What VISIA Imaging Reveals
VISIA’s skin diagnostics can analyze the following eight items:
• Color, size, shape of spots
• Number, shape of pores
• Hidden spots
• Acne-causing bacteria (Porphyrins)
• Number of wrinkles
• Fine texture of skin
• Skin tone unevenness, redness
• Skin age
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We provide detailed explanations of each measurable item.
① Spots
We analyze all pigmentation on the skin surface based on the color, size, and shape from color images.
Even faint spots, liver spots, and freckles that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye can be identified, allowing for preventive measures against spots.
② Pores
We analyze pores based on their characteristic of being recessed and shadowed compared to surrounding areas.
We can read the number and shape of pores. VISIA can analyze pore openness, which is difficult to see with the naked eye, allowing for the prevention of skin problems.
③ Hidden Spots
VISIA can measure not only spots that are already visible on the skin surface but also hidden spots that have not yet appeared on the skin surface.
Based on the results of VISIA’s skin diagnosis, early treatment for hidden spots can prevent spots from appearing on the skin surface.
④ Porphyrins
VISIA captures Porphyrins, which are the cause of acne bacteria, through UV photography.
By analyzing the amount of Porphyrins that glow in response to UV light, it is possible to determine whether the skin is prone to acne or where acne is likely to occur.
By analyzing the amount of Porphyrins (metabolites of acne bacteria), we can propose appropriate acne treatment methods to patients.
⑤ Number of Wrinkles
We analyze wrinkles, which are characterized by fine linear lines darker than the surrounding skin color.
We analyze the number of wrinkles on the skin surface based on the characteristic of “fine linear lines darker than the surrounding skin color.”
⑥ Fine Texture of Skin
By analyzing the smoothness of the skin surface, we analyze the uniformity of the skin.
We compare the central color within a certain range and other colors to judge the roughness of the skin. If the color of the skin surface is uniform, we judge that the skin texture is fine.
⑦ Skin Tone Unevenness, Redness
The color of the skin changes mainly due to the amount of two elements: melanin and hemoglobin.
When there is a large amount of melanin, the skin color becomes dark, and when there is a large amount of hemoglobin, the skin color becomes reddish.
VISIA measures skin tone unevenness and redness by separating and visualizing melanin and hemoglobin.
Using skin diagnosis by VISIA for treatment of facial flushing, acne, and pigmentation, it is possible to measure the effect before and after treatment.
⑧ Skin Age
Finally, it is possible to diagnose skin age.
VISIA has skin diagnostic data for over 100,000 people (including approximately 11,000 Japanese individuals). By comparing with the average of the same age group from abundant data, it is possible to objectively understand your skin quality.
With VISIA’s skin diagnosis results, you can determine your skin age and where your skin diagnosis results rank among 100 people of the same age group.
Recommended Candidates for Skin Diagnosis
We recommend VISIA skin diagnosis for those who fall under the following categories:
Want to reassess their usual skincare products by knowing their skin type
Want to simulate the future condition of their skin
Want to identify hidden spots in advance and prevent them
Want to compare their skin quality with others in the same age group
Undergoing acne treatment but not seeing improvement
VISIA meticulously analyzes skin conditions item by item and allows comparison with skin quality of the same age group. If you want to objectively diagnose your skin quality and utilize it for future treatments and self-care, please consider VISIA skin diagnosis.
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