Automatic algorithm for skin profile detection in photoacoustic microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Hao F ^a,b   Maslov, Konstantin ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

image processing; photoacoustic microscopy; smoothing

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGES PROCESSING; NON-PARAMETRIC SMOOTHING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ROUGH ESTIMATION; SKIN SURFACES; SMOOTHING; VASCULATURE; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROVESSELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

EID: 67650308497     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3122362     Document Type: Article

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