Virginia Project: A first paper from R2P2 Lab

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2025.1636667/full

First, the Virginia software, written with Red language, isolated neonatal anatomy through PyTorch-based PointRend segmentation combined with morphological filtering.

Second, radiometric decoding via ExifTool and ImageMagick extracted pixel-level temperature values mapped to anatomical regions of interest (chest, extremities). Finally, quantitative thermal metrics were derived, including median body surface, temperature and spatial thermal variability (interquartile range).

A key advantage of this automated pipeline is its low operator dependence; once the image is acquired, the entire segmentation and feature extraction process is software-driven, minimizing human interpretation bias.