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Figure 3

From: Segmentation of epidermal tissue with histopathological damage in images of haematoxylin and eosin stained human skin

Figure 3

Digital images of H&E stained skin showing varying levels of histological damage. Figure 3 shows examples of H&E stained skin sections with each grade of damage, with grade I showing a slight vacuolisation of epidermal basal cells (Figure 3a), grade II more diffuse vacuolisation plus dyskeratotic bodies (Figure 3b), grade III showing sub-epidermal cleft formation in addition to grade II changes (Figure 3c), and finally grade IV showing complete epidermal separation (Figure 3d). The epidermis tissue to be segmented is outlined in green in each image. Figure 3e is a typical tiled image generated by the Zeiss AxioImager II system, the black regions around the edges are added to form a rectangle after the image tiling and stitching.

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