This tutorial-review introduces the fundamentals of polarized light interaction with biological
tissues and presents some of the recent key polarization optical methods that have made …

This book introduces some of the recent key developments in polarization optical methods
that have made possible the quantitative studies of tissues and biological cells essential to …

Skin is the outer-most tissue of the human body. As a result, people are very aware of, and
very sensitive to, the appearance of their skin. Consequently, skin appearance has been a …

Cells are the basic unit of human organs that are not fully understood. The revolutionary
advancements of optical imaging allowed us to observe single cells in whole organs …

A major drawback in polarization gating of light backscattered from tissue is that surface
reflections dominate the image. An optically flat plate and matching fluid applied to the tissue …

This paper proposes two approaches to the skin lesion image segmentation problem. The
first is a mainly region-based segmentation method where an optimal threshold is …

The primate cerebral cortex is organized into specialized areas representing different
modalities and functions along a continuous surface. The functional maps across the cortex …

A novel cross-polarized optical coherence tomography (CP OCT) system is developed,
which is based on standard isotropic single-mode fiber. We exploit the property of an …

The medical evaluation and diagnosis of skin disease primarily relies on visual inspection
for specific lesional morphologic features such as color, shape, border, configuration …

Polarization gating is a popular and widely used technique in biomedical optics to sense
superficial tissues (colinear detection), deeper volumes (crosslinear detection), and also …