Inserting data

Essentially, tkDerm handles data on photo sessions. It doesn't process data on photos per se. The words "photo session" is meant here to be an occasion in which a doctor shoots one or more photos of a patient usually within a reasonably short time such as several minutes. Session data include information about patient's name, ID, birthday, sex, distribution of an eruption, diagnosis, time and so on.

In general, any number of photographs belong to one session. tkDerm makes this one-to-many mapping automatically by a mechanism called Automatic Image Registration (AIR), which will be described in Chapter 3 ( page).

This chapter explains how to insert session data. As tkDerm handles only session data, the word ''data'' instead of ''session data'' is used in this chapter.