Evaluation of dark circles of the lower eyelid: Comparison between reflectance meters and image processing and involvement of dermal thickness in appearance

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-141

  Ohshima, Hiroshi ^a   Takiwaki, Hirotsugu ^b  

^a POLA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dark circles of the lower eyelid; Dermal thickness; Image processing; MI EI; Reflectance meters

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COLLAGEN; GELS; HEMOGLOBIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REFLECTOMETERS;

DARK CIRCLES OF THE LOWER EYELID; DERMAL THICKNESS; ERYTHEMA INDEX; MELANIN INDEX; OXYGENATION INDEX;

SKIN;

COLLAGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; MELANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CHEEK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GEL; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; LOWER EYELID; MALE; OXYGENATION; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMOSCOPY; EYELIDS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 42449145552     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2007.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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