Spectral morphological analysis of skin lesions with a polarization multispectral dermoscope

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4826-4840

  Kapsokalyvas, Dimitrios ^a   Bruscino, Nicola ^b   Alfieri, Domenico ^c   De Giorgi, Vincenzo ^b   Cannarozzo, Giovanni ^b   Cicchi, Riccardo ^a,d   Massi, Daniela ^b   Pimpinelli, Nicola ^b   Pavone, Francesco S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Light4tech Firenze srl   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINANCE; MORPHOLOGY;

COMPLEX TASK; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DERMOSCOPY; HIGH LUMINANCE LEDS; HUMAN SKIN; IN-VIVO IMAGING; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; POLARIZATION FILTERING; SINGLE SCATTERING; SKIN LESION; SPECTRAL REGION;

POLARIZATION;

TUMOR MARKER;

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

DERMOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874540459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004826     Document Type: Article

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