부산대학교 도서관

Our hands are one of the first places where the signs of aging become apparent and visible due to natural aging and exposure to sunlight and adverse environmental conditions, smoking, and genes. Even though one’s face and neck may look relatively youthful, sun-damaged, veiny, wrinkled hands can give person older looking appearance. Hands aging signs are expressed through dark spots, pre-cancerous growths, thinning skin, wrinkles, large veins, loss of fatty tissue and overall decrease of skin elasticity. There are numerous efficient and effective procedures for hands rejuvenation aimed at skin quality and texture improvement and decreasing its wrinkles and prominent veins. This paper presents developed hands’ aging process evaluation algorithm with the goal of assisting in evaluation of not only geriatric stage related changes but also often hands in late 20s can be primary indicators of premature aging and in more critical cases indicators of Acrogeria (Gottron’s syndrome).