Automatic measurement of skin textures of the dorsal hand in evaluating skin aging

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-151

  Gao, Qian ^a   Yu, Jiaming ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Ge, Tiantian ^a   Hu, Liwen ^a   Liu, Y ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automated image analysis; Skin aging; Skin image processing; Skin texture

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SKIN AGING; SKIN IMAGES; SKIN TEXTURES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATLAB;

TEXTURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DORSAL HAND; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN TEXTURE; SUN EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN AGING;

EID: 84876323254     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/srt.12025     Document Type: Article

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