Obesity is a widespread chronic illness which affects over 40% of the US adult population
and its world-wide prevalence has increased over the years impacting both low and high …

Significance: Obesity is a worldwide epidemic contributing directly to several cardiovascular
risk factors including hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Wearable devices are becoming …

Obesity leads to a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Wearable devices
can be used to manage and promote the healthy lifestyle among the obese by measuring …

Imaging non-invasively into the human body is currently limited by cost (MRI and CT scan),
image resolution (ultrasound), exposure to ionising radiation (CT scan and X-ray), and the …

Absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of in-vivo human skin provide critical
information on non-invasive skin diagnoses for aesthetic and clinical purposes. To date, very …

Significance Skin color affects light penetration leading to differences in its absorption and
scattering properties. COVID-19 highlighted the importance of understanding of the …

A number of noninvasive techniques and instruments have emerged over the years allowing
much progress toward clarifying the structure and function of human skin and studying the …

This study explores the use of spatially-resolved diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for non-
invasive method for measuring subcutaneous fat layer thickness. We investigated the …

Gender is identified as a significant source of variation in optical reflectance measurements
on mouse skin, with variation in the thickness of the dermal layer being the key explanatory …

Skin elasticity has been regarded as one of the main indicators of skin condition. Current
measurement devices for skin elasticity are mostly expensive for home‐use and should …