A measurement of epidermal thickness of fingertip skin from OCT images using convolutional neural network

Yongping Lin; Dezi Li; Wang Liu; Zhaowei Zhong; Zhifang Li; Youwu He; Shulian Wu

doi:10.1142/s1793545821400058

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