Automated identification of epidermal keratinocytes in reflectance confocal microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gareau, Dan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Keratinocyte morphometry; Reflectance confocal microscopy; Skin

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; B-PARAMETER; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; ERROR FUNCTION; KERATINOCYTES; MORPHOMETRY; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPIES; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SKIN CANCERS; TRAINING SETS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER VISION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

REFLECTION;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 79961233164     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3552639     Document Type: Article

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