Assessment of wound healing is a complex task, especially when the lesion is associated to
significant (full thickness) loss of the skin. The clinical observation, essentially subjective and
highly dependent on the observer's experience, creates difficulties in the comparison of
results. Scoring scales were introduced in the clinical practice to create comparable semi-
quantitative data and promote better management of resources, but its usefulness in a
clinical perspective is still limited. New non-invasive biometric methodologies, although …