The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of hyperspectral near-infrared (NIR) reflectance imaging techniques for detecting cuticle cracks on tomatoes. A hyperspectral NIR reflectance imaging system that analyzed the spectral region of 1000-1700 nm was used to obtain hyperspectral reflectance images of 224 tomatoes: 112 with and 112 without cracks along the stem-scar region. The hyper...

Recent behavioural experiments have shown that birds use ultraviolet (UV)-reflective and fluorescent plumage as cues in mate choice. It remains controversial, however, whether such UV signals play a special role in sexual communication, or whether they are part of general plumage coloration. We use a comparative approach to test for a general association between sexual signalling and either UV-...

Introduction The ability to track fluorescent proteins, dyes, quantum dots, and other fluorescent reporters in vivo is a rapidly growing technology known as molecular imaging. The IVIS Imaging Systems developed at Xenogen are optimized for imaging both bioluminescent and fluorescent reporters in vivo. Fluorescence equipment is standard on the IVIS Imaging System 200 Series while the IVIS Imagin...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether in vivo images of oral mucosa obtained with a fiber optic confocal reflectance microscope could be used to differentiate normal and neoplastic tissues. We imaged 20 oral sites in eight patients undergoing surgery for squamous cell carcinoma. Normal and abnormal areas within the oral cavity were identified clinically, and real-time videos of eac...

In-vivo imaging can be achieved with a coherent-fiber-bundle based confocal reflectance microscope. Such a microscope could provide the means to detect pre-cancerous lesions in the cervix by characterizing cells' nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio. In this paper we present the design of such a fiber confocal reflectance microscope, with an emphasis on its optical sub-systems. The optical sub-systems ...

Mapping pigmentation in human skin is expected to give useful information in reproducing and diagnosing various skin colors. In this research, maps of melanin, oxyhemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin in skin are estimated from multi-visible-spectral image by using an inverse optical scattering technique. In the inverse optical scattering technique, first of all, a forward model of optical scattering...

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a technique for estimating surface local angular reflectance from set of stereo-photometric images captured with variable lighting directions. The digitization this information fully fits into the industry 4.0 approach and makes it possible to characterize visual properties surface. proposed method, namely HD-RTI, based on coupling RTI HDR imaging tec...

Proximal imaging remote sensing technologies are used to phenotype and to characterize organisms based on specific external body reflectance features. These imaging technologies are gaining interest and becoming more widely used and applied in ecological, systematic, evolutionary, and physiological studies of plants and also of animals. However, important factors may impact the quality and cons...

The characterization of material reflectance properties is important in the analysis of hyperspectral and polarization imagery as well as accurate simulation of such images. This paper merges the results of empirical reflectance property (spectral pBRDF) measurements with detailed model based simulations. The empirical data are collected with a laboratory spectroradiometer as well as an RIT-dev...

Reflectance confocal microscopy is a modern, non-invasive diagnostic method that enables real-time imaging of the epidermis and upper layers of the dermis with nearly histological precision and high contrast. The application of this technology to skin imaging during the last years has resulted in progress of dermatological diagnosis, providing virtual access to living skin, without the need for...