Acquisition of skin characteristics by Monte Carlo modeling and evolutionary setting of parameters.

In this paper, we present the intelligent system to characterize optically human skin; our proposal is a non-invasive way to obtain some parameters of the skin such as the concentration of hemoglobin, water percentages, and thickness of the layers of the skin. To achieve the objective of this work, we used an experimental technique called diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry and numerical calculations, such as the Monte Carlo method and the evolutionary algorithm Evonorm. Five case studies were performed. In the first two cases with the Monte Carlo method, a simulated diffuse reflectance was obtained with proposed parameters in order to compare the parameters obtained by the evolutionary algorithm and the proposed parameters. In the rest of the cases, an experimental diffuse reflectance obtained from volunteers was used. Numerical modeling was presented to non-invasively detect some parameters of the skin such as hemoglobin concentration, water percentages, and the thickness of the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis. It was proposed to use evolutionary algorithms for being robust methods for the optimization of complex problems with a reasonable computational cost. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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José Mario Cantú Rodríguez, Norma Patricia Puente Ramírez, Fernando Félix Montes Tapia, Luis Martín Torres Treviño. Acquisition of skin characteristics by Monte Carlo modeling and evolutionary setting of parameters. Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI). 2020 Sep;26(5):740-748

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