The name “melanin” comes from the ancient Greekmelanos, meaning “dark,” and, according to Borovansky [4], the term was probably first applied by the Swedish chemist Berzelius in 1840 to call a dark pigment extracted from eye membranes [5]. However, first references of human skin pigmen...
The present invention relates generally to a methodology of determining the concentration of the types of melanin, either eumelanin or pheomelanin, in the skin wherein the process for such determination is non-invasive and based on digital signal and image analysis of hyperspectral sensing and multi...