A simple method to estimate CIE-L(*)a(*)b(*) values of the skin from its videomicroscopic image

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-44

  Takiwaki, Hirotsugu ^a   Miyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Ahsan, Kamrul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorimetry; Image analysis; L(*)a(*)b(*); Skin color

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENTATION; SKIN COLOR; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031004191     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.1997.tb00158.x     Document Type: Article

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