Automated Perceptually-Motivated Assessment of Photographic Consistency in Paired Clinical Photographs: Pipeline Development and Internal Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15144v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:19:17 GMT
• Title: Automated Perceptually-Motivated Assessment of Photographic Consistency in Paired Clinical Photographs: Pipeline Development and Internal Evaluation
• Abstract summary: We developed a pipeline that analyzes pre/post pairs across thirteen calibrated sub-metrics.<n>The pipeline was calibrated on 134 matched within-patient published pre/post pairs and evaluated against identical-image pairs, synthetic-perturbation pairs, and 134 mismatched cross-publication pairs.
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• Abstract: Purpose: Paired pre- and post-operative photographs are the standard unit of evidence for plastic surgical outcomes, yet no objective metric verifies whether two images of the same patient were captured under conditions consistent for comparison. Approach: We developed a perceptually motivated pipeline that analyzes pre/post pairs across thirteen calibrated sub-metrics, partitioned by unsupervised correlation-structure analysis into five data-driven clusters (photometric, texture / sharpness, pose, illumination direction, and pitch), averaged within each cluster and combined across clusters by a weighted sum into a single consistency score. Each sub-metric is calibrated so that its median difference across published within-patient pairs scores 0.5, which is a reference point and carries no pass/fail meaning. The pipeline was calibrated on 134 matched within-patient published pre/post pairs and evaluated against identical-image pairs, synthetic-perturbation pairs, and 134 mismatched cross-publication pairs. Results: The master consistency score S separated matched from mismatched pairs (sensitivity index d' = 2.15, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.83, 2.55]; area under the receiver operating characteristic curve AUC = 0.928, 95% CI [0.896, 0.959]), closely matching Gaussian-equal-variance predictions. The three head-pose angles did not fall in one cluster: yaw and roll grouped together while pitch separated. Identical pairs scored at ceiling (S = 0.99) and the master score fell monotonically with perturbation magnitude on all five perturbation axes. Conclusions: The score quantifies photographic comparability, not aesthetic or surgical quality, and provides a freely available web tool for auditing the photographic comparability of pre/post pairs, pending validation against expert judgment.

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