Visualization method based on digital image analysis reveals photodamage of the skin

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1173-1174

  Blum, Andreas ^a   Vollert, Barbara ^a   Schlagenhauff, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NOTE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN PHOTODAMAGE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN AGING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 4544305837     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.9.1173     Document Type: Note

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