Title
Automated Quantification Of The Epidermal Aging Process Using In-Vivo Confocal Microscopy
Abstract
Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a powerful tool to visualize the skin layers at cellular resolution. The epidermal layer appears as a honeycomb pattern, whose regularity decreases with age. Our aim is to provide a method to automatically quantify the regularity of the honeycomb pattern. The proposed strategy relies on a cell-level supervised classification as regular or irregular using spatial information given by a prior segmentation. The aggregated scores defined by the classification results show significant correlation with chronological aging and photo-aging. Thus, our method enables practitioners to more objectively assess the quality of the epidermal layers on large cohort of subjects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493486
2016 IEEE 13TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (ISBI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reflectance confocal microscopy, skin aging, image segmentation, classification
Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Skin Aging,In vivo,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Reflectance confocal microscopy,Honeycomb Pattern,Confocal microscopy
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
1
0.43
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Robic110.77
Alex Nkengne211.11
Benjamin Perret310212.78
Michel Couprie490465.04
Hugues Talbot587180.69